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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 29, 2026

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The chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg, visits a printing factory in Kiryat Gat where ballot papers were being printed in preparation for the election, October 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Judge says suspicions 'serious' but not yet substantiated

Election committee chief instructs Shin Bet to probe suspicion of foreign influence on vote

By Lazar Berman, Ariela Karmel, Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Security agency said to provide Sohlberg with info on possible Qatari campaign to sway Arab vote; Likud decries ‘stolen’ election, Eisenkot warns against delay in swearing in Knesset

An Arab Israeli casts her ballot in the country’s general election at a polling station in Umm al-Fahm, October 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Likud claims election ‘stolen’ by Arab parties following their record performance

By Lazar Berman and Ariela Karmel

Explainer

What are the election fraud allegations roiling Israel? Could they change the results?

Election panel head Noam Sohlberg has told the Shin Bet to probe allegations of foreign influence, reported to involve Qatari funding for an Arab get-out-the-vote effort. Why is that illegal, and what could its fallout be?

The chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Supreme Court Deputy President Noam Sohlberg, arrives for a CEC hearing at the Knesset in Jerusalem on September 23, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Left to right: Ra'am chief Mansour Abbas speaks in Sakhnin, Yashar chief Gadi Eisenkot speaks in Tel Aviv, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Jerusalem, following the release of exit poll results on election night, October 27, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90, Jack GUEZ/AFP, AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Arab parties pan ‘racist’ campaign as PM claims alleged foreign influence plot ‘stole’ election

By Ariela Karmel, Lazar Berman, Leon Kraiem, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

LiveUpdated 8min ago

LIVE: Elections panel chief says claims of widespread fraud appear to be baseless; Shin Bet says probe ‘limited in scope’

Report: CENTCOM chief presents Iran military options to Trump at White House * Police clash with Haredi anti-enlistment protesters blocking traffic on highway near Bnei Brak

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Central Elections Committee publishes final election results, Knesset to be sworn in Nov. 10
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Netanyahu and Smotrich said to meet to coordinate efforts following election
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Argentina's Milei congratulates Netanyahu on 'great victory' at election

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Nefesh B’Nefesh and the FIDF brought more than 70 government agencies and service providers together at Yom Siddurim to help lone soldiers tackle the bureaucracy of everyday life.

Op-ed: Two days after election

Israel’s election yielded a stalemate. Which means Netanyahu won

The anti-Netanyahu parties won a Knesset majority, but they do not have the means to translate that into even a minority government. The failure is staggering, and may echo long into Israel’s future

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

Founding editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 29 – After election dust settles, who will be the last man standing?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (top left), Yashar chair Gadi Eisenkot (top right), Joint List chair Yousef Jabareen (bottom left) and Ra'am chair Mansour Abbas (bottom right) address supporters at their election headquarters on October 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90, Sharon Leibel/Flash90, Michael Giladi/Flash90)

With close to all votes counted, Netanyahu bloc has 53 seats, Eisenkot’s 48; Arab parties surge to 19

By ToI Staff and Ariela Karmel

Central Elections Committee expected to announce 100% of votes counted later on Thursday night, but official, final results not expected before November 4

AnalysisLast-to-be-counted ‘double envelope’ votes could shift Knesset seats, but not balance of power

By Stav Levaton

Shas chairman Aryeh Deri with Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the spiritual leader of Shas, on the stage at the party's election campaign opening event in Holon, August 21, 2026. (Yaakov Cohen)

Top Shas rabbi said looking to oust longtime leader Deri over poor election result

Op-ed

For pro-Israel diaspora, Israel’s Arab voters are a point of pride. For Israeli Jews, they’re a national security threat

High Arab turnout makes it easier to make case for Israel abroad, but complicates coalition-building for Jewish-led parties that have embraced PM’s delegitimization of Arab political leaders

Yousef Jabareen, leader of the Arab-led Joint List political alliance, (Center-L) and other members cheer at the alliance’s campaign headquarters in Nazareth on October 27, 2026, as the first exit polls are announced on television during Israel’s legislative election. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

Ra'am party chief Mansour Abbas and other party members stand on stage following the release of exit poll results in Sakhnin, October 27, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Progressive US Jews call for Eisenkot-led opposition bloc to welcome Arab parties

By Sharon Udasin

Democratic candidate for US Senate Angie Nixon speaks on stage during a fireside chat at Florida Memorial University, October 8, 2026, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Jewish Floridians torn over anti-Israel Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon

By Joseph Strauss

Opposition mulls replacing Ohana as Knesset speaker with Lapid

Netanyahu vows to stick with far-right partners as Eisenkot seeks path to ‘bring change’

‘We are together and we are staying together,’ PM quoted as saying to Ben Gvir and Smotrich; Golan says he intends to meet with fellow ‘change bloc’ leaders as Liberman said to ghost them

Religious Zionism chairman Bezalel Smotrich, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Otzma Yehudit chief Itamar Ben Gvir address supporters after October 27, 2026, elections. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90, Jewel Samad/AFP, AP Photo/Leo Correa)

President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal cast their ballots at a polling station in Jerusalem, during Election Day in Israel, October 27, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Herzog urges avoiding another election, calls for ‘open mind’ in coalition talks

By Nava Freiberg and Jeremy Sharon

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan embraces flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar, during a reception for him and other crew members of Flight 1073 in Abu Dhabi on October 27, 2026. (Screenshots via X)

Sporting visible scars, hero flydubai pilot honored by president of UAE

Emirati President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan awards Smit Machchhar and colleagues First Class Order of Zayed for thwarting Omani copilot’s attempt to crash plane full of Israelis

Why my antizionism didn’t survive a Houthi missile

I spent two years protesting Israel without ever speaking to an Israeli. Then I went there

Hamas can always hire another accountant

Taking out the group’s financiers buys time. But breaking its grip on Gaza’s money requires a strategy built around reconstruction

US President Donald Trump departs the North Portico of the White House, in Washington, October 28, 2026. (Alex Brandon/AP)

White House has not made decision to intervene in Israeli coalition talks — official

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Reports that Washington will push for a unity government to resolve inconclusive election outcome are ‘false and premature,’ US official tells ToI

Tel Aviv shares tumble amid looming political deadlock following Israel's national election. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Miriam Alster/Flash90, Yonatan Sindel/Pool Photo via AP)

Tel Aviv stocks drop and shekel slides as election results dent hopes for change

By Sharon Wrobel

As near-final vote count indicate a looming political deadlock, investors brace for weeks of uncertainty, after betting on a change in government

Palestinians walk past campaign posters for far-right politician Itamar Ben Gvir, in Beit Kahil in the West Bank during the Israeli election on October 27, 2026. (Ilia Yefimovich/AFP)

From Gaza to the West Bank, Palestinians expect no major change after Israeli election

Hegseth fires Pentagon’s head of strategy, no reason given

Vance reportedly contacted top Iran security official in bid to restart peace talks

By AFP and ToI Staff

VP sends letter to head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council laying out framework for potential negotiations; WSJ says Trump ordered initiative, but US president denies being behind it

US Vice President JD Vance speaks at the Lake Lucerne Summit at the Burgenstock resort in Obbuergen, near Lucerne, Switzerland, Sunday, June 21, 2026. (Urs Flueeler, Pool Photo via AP)

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

Caretaker role will limit Netanyahu though he’ll retain war powers, as possible Iran attack looms

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians are seen near their tents at a displacement camp in the central Gaza Strip, October 24, 2026. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

IDF: 6 Hamas operatives, including 3 Oct. 7 terrorists, killed in recent Gaza strikes

By Emanuel Fabian

One terror operative killed in Strip’s south was involved in abducting and holding hostages, military says; Palestinian who crossed Yellow Line during election killed by troops

The reverse side of a Torah scroll fragment offered for auction in Norway, bearing a handwritten German address. The auction house claimed the parchment had been used by SS soldiers to wrap a package sent to Germany during the Holocaust. (Courtesy of RUTH: Remember Us The Holocaust, via JTA)

Norwegian auction of Nazi-defaced Holocaust-era Torah fragment sparks outcry, then intervention

By Deborah Danan

Israel’s Foreign Ministry praises efforts to prevent sale of ‘sacred manuscript looted by Nazis,’ calfskin fragment to be donated to San Diego Holocaust remembrance organization

English actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, dressed as his satirical fictional character Ali G, attends the premiere of Amazon MGM Studio’s “Ali G: Who Iz I?” at the Hollywood American Legion Post 43 in Los Angeles on October 14, 2026. (Katie Flores/AFP)

Sacha Baron Cohen wants to fight bigotry. But is Ali G part of the problem?

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

British Jewish comedian pushes back against calls to boycott his new film ‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’ over cultural appropriation concerns, says character is ideal vehicle for exposing insidious explosion of bigotry

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Screen capture from video of federal judge Alvin Hellerstein during an interview with the Refusniks and Activists website, 2023. (Resfusniksactivists)

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By Reuters and ToI Staff

The Talbieh neighborhood of Jerusalem (Noam Chen)

High Court urges talks to resolve dispute over property formerly owned by Greek Orthodox church

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro arrives at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on October 28, 2026, in Opa-locka, Florida. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Flavio Bolsonaro lands in Miami with family after Trump offers exit from Brazil

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