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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 28, 2026

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attend a vote at the plenum hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

LIVE: With 85% of ballots counted, Netanyahu-led bloc at 53 seats, Eisenkot-led bloc at 48, Arab parties at 19; Herzog calls for ‘open mind’ in coalition talks

US official calls reports that Trump prefers any specific coalition ‘false and premature’ * US president says he and Netanyahu must ‘finish the job’ in Iran * Golan to meet with Eisenkot, Lapid tomorrow for coalition talks

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Yashar party chief Gadi Eisenkot give speeches at their party headquarters on election night, October 28, 2026. (AP Photo/David Goldman; Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ben Gvir warns PM against unity government with Eisenkot

Eisenkot and Netanyahu each vow to form next coalition, even as exit polls predict stalemate

By Stav Levaton, Ariela Karmel, Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg, Noam Lehmann and Leon Kraiem

Parties across the political spectrum celebrate, even though neither bloc has majority to form coalition without violating campaign promises; most urge patience until final votes counted

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks to supporters at Likud party headquarters in Jerusalem following the release of the first exit poll results in Israel’s general election, October 28, 2026. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Full textNetanyahu: We must form strong, national, right-wing government, remove existential threat from Iran

Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot speaks at the party’s election headquarters in Tel Aviv, following the closing of polling stations and the release of exit poll results after Israel’s general election, in the early hours of October 28, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Full textEisenkot: I will do my utmost to form a Zionist government, with national service for all; Netanyahu should step down

Democrats chairman Yair Golan and members of his party celebrate at the party’s election headquarters in Tel Aviv, following the release of exit poll results, October 27, 2026. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

As election portends gridlock, Democrats’ Golan urges coalition with Arabs to oust Netanyahu

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Joint List chairman says he’s ready to ‘pave the way’ for Netanyahu’s ouster; with 85.6% of votes counted, PM’s bloc on track to win 53 seats, Eisenkot’s 48, and Arab parties 19

People of Israel chairman Ofer Winter speaks at his party’s election headquarters in Glilot, following the closing of polling stations and the release of exit polls, late October 27, 2026. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

‘We fought a machine’: Upstart parties fail to pass threshold, but vow to stick around

By ToI Staff and Sharon Wrobel

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Op-ed

Election leaves Israel’s political future uncertain, but Netanyahu still clearly controls its present

Like Shimon Peres 30 years ago, Gadi Eisenkot thought the exit polls meant he’d defeated the Likud leader. Not so fast

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Yashar chief Gadi Eisenkot wave to supporters at their respective party campaign headquarters, after the October 27, 2026, election. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Analysis

Change bloc alliance with Arabs, unity government, or new election: 3 scenarios for what comes next

With both pro- and anti-Netanyahu blocs well short of a majority after tallying of most ballots, analysts dissect the most likely ways forward, some of which would involve party leaders breaking key promises

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters at the Likud party’s election headquarters in Jerusalem, early October 28, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ExplainerHerzog’s coalition challenge amid election deadlock, and what a caretaker government can and can’t do

By Jeremy Sharon

Analysis

Arab parties emerge as potential kingmakers, presenting Zionist opposition with fateful choice

Despite anti-Netanyahu majority, opposition leaders’ refusal to rely on Arab parties could force fresh elections or unity government, either of which would keep premier in power

Joint List chair Yousef Jabareen and supporters gather at the party’s election headquarters in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth, following the closing of polling stations on election night, October 27, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)

Joint List party chairman Yousef Jabareen and supporters gather at the party’s election headquarters in Nazareth, October 27, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)

Arab parties revel as exit polls project historic gains, but kingmaker role still in doubt

By Noam Lehmann, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Says he'll look at option of pushing for unity government

Trump takes credit for Netanyahu’s election boost after endorsement

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US president says ‘whole tide turned’ after he backed PM, touts ‘big come-from-behind’ as votes continue to be counted, with neither Netanyahu nor opposition bloc reaching majority

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he arrives on Air Force One, October 28, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A demonstrator holds an anti-US placard as another holds an Iranian flag during a pro-government gathering in Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US warns Gulf states of possible renewed Iran offensive after midterms – report

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One, October 25, 2026, at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

AnalysisHow Trump’s ‘little detour’ to Iran became a roadblock in the US midterm elections

By Thomas Beaumont and AAMER MADHANI

Exit polls show outgoing Netanyahu coalition losing majority, but uncertainty over nature of next government

By Ariela Karmel, Stav Levaton, Leon Kraiem, Shira Silkoff, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Likud projected to be largest party; Jewish-led anti-Netanyahu bloc short of a majority unless its leaders violate campaign pledges not to partner with Arab parties, which are set to make unprecedented gains

Activists celebrate at the Yashar party headquarters in Tel Aviv as exit polls show the opposition bloc winning more seats than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc, on October 27, 2026. (Matan Siegel/Times of Israel)

Democrats party chairman Yair Golan casts his vote at a polling station in Rosh HaAyin, central Israel, during Israel’s general elections, October 27, 2026. (Reuven Schwartz/Flash90)

‘Traitor’: Opposition candidates face attacks, harassment on election day

By Noam Lehmann, Stav Levaton, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Israeli settlers gather with their children outside a polling station during Israel’s general election in Hebron in the West Bank, October 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

On election day, some settlers pass over Netanyahu in favor of far-right partners

By AFP and ToI Staff

Shop vendor Jarjee stands in his stall at the bazaar in Acre on October 28, 2026. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We've had enough of Netanyahu'

In mixed city of Acre, Jewish-Arab coexistence shapes hopes for anti-Netanyahu coalition

By Diana Bletter

In the market stalls of the old bazaar, locals call for Zionist and Arab parties to work together to bring change – but resistance to the idea by opposition leaders may render their vision a nonstarter

Analysis

Israelis delivered an inconclusive election result. Cue the wishful thinking

A government can only form if the same politicians who have been in power for years decide to mend fences, break decades-long patterns and make sense of an incoherent Knesset

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media as he stands next to his wife Sara after voting at a polling station in Jerusalem, October 27, 2026. (Jewel Samad/Pool Photo via AP)

Political correspondents Tal Schneider and Ariela Karmel join host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing October 28: Israel voted in droves. What comes next?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Tal Schneider and Ariela Karmel

2 Palestinians said hurt in West Bank settler attack

Hebron municipality: Some 5,000 residents still impacted by IDF operation in city

By Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian

Operation launched last week, after Palestinian gunmen killed 2 soldiers, continues, 6 detained in nearby villages; IDF says footage of soldier beating Palestinian detainee under review

Israeli soldiers guard a checkpoint at the entrance to the West Bank city of Hebron, following a shooting attack in the area several days earlier, October 28, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Serbian gendarmes guard the Israeli Embassy after an unidentified assailant attacked a guard with knives in Belgrade, Serbia, October 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Knife-wielding minor attacks guard at Israeli embassy in Belgrade, is shot dead

By Agencies and Nava Freiberg

Serbian interior ministry calls incident ‘terror attack,’ says assailant had Islamic State flag on Instagram account, shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during assault

A midnight adventure into antiquity

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Walter Koenig’s death sent me back to the Starship Enterprise, where the sons and grandsons of Jewish immigrants offered hope in a perilous time

Daniel Schlichter looks on as he speaks during an interview about an attack that occurred while he was aboard a flydubai flight bound for Israel, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Inside storyMany passengers struggling to resume their normal lives

Flydubai attack survivors say Israeli government has left them high and dry

By Hannah Dreyfus

After Sept. 30 flight plummeted thousands of feet when terrorist copilot attempted to crash it, and heroic actions narrowly averted disaster, passengers say they’re having to grapple with recovery on their own

US Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander (left) speaks with Yasser Alqam (right), spokesperson of the Turmus Ayya municipality, while visiting the West Bank town, October 23, 2026. (AP/Leo Correa)

After his detention at olive harvest, Israel revokes US politician’s entry visa

By Andrew Lapin

Immigration authority tells Brad Lander, Democratic nominee for Congress in New York, and several activist rabbis their visas were canceled due to ‘change in circumstances’

Tovah Feldshuh, as Bina Roklov, and Adam Brody, as her son, Rabbi Noah Roklov, in season three of Netflix romcom TV show 'Nobody Wants This' (Screenshot: YouTube/Netflix)

Adam Brody’s TV mother, Tovah Feldshuh, pushes back on his genocide comment

By Jessica Steinberg

A recovered parochet (Torah ark curtain) stolen by the Nazis is brought back to the Berlin Jewish community, in an undated photo. (Nicolai Froundjian via JTA)

Jewish artifacts looted by Nazis return to Berlin, thanks to Arizona synagogue

By Toby Axelrod

Holocaust survivor exchanged Crisco, coffee and cigarettes for Torah sash and ark cover looted on Kristallnacht, brought them to US where they eventually went on display in Phoenix

Noah Wyle in HBO's "The Pitt." (Warrick Page/MAX via JTA)

People's chosen

Noah Wyle, TV’s nice Jewish doctor, is People’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Wyle drew on his father’s Russian-Jewish background in helping create Robby, his ER physician character on ‘The Pitt,’ who wears a Star of David necklace

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A volunteer stands under an umbrella in the rain outside a polling station in Jerusalem on October 27, 2026, on election day. (Jewel SAMAD/AFP)

Heavy rains close highways, hiking trails in south; effect on voter turnout unclear

Alon Alexander, 37, right, and his twin brother, Oren, left, attend their bond hearing at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building on December 13, 2024 in Miami, Florida. (Matias J. Ocner-Pool/Getty Images/AFP)

3 Israeli-American brothers handed 30 years each in US prison for sex trafficking

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Opposition presidential candidate Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro arrives at his election night event after the presidential runoff in Brasilia, Brazil, October 25, 2026. (AP/Eraldo Peres)

After losing election, Bolsonaro said to flee Brazil for United States

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a campaign rally with President Donald Trump at Alico Arena on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University, October 23, 2026, in Fort Myers, Florida. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

RFK Jr. under fire for claiming Arabs ‘don’t produce’ science or literature

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