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2026 Israeli election

2026 Israeli elections

The Times of Israel's electoral dashboard. Parties' final seats and potential coalition alliances

Knesset seat projections over time

Possible coalitions according to the latest poll

*Joint List and Ra'am could support a coalition without formally joining

Where the parties stand on key issues

Yisrael Beytenu party chairman MK Avigdor Liberman. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
Protester at Eisenkot's home: 'You murdered your son'
Liberman backs Eisenkot for PM, but rules out minority government with Arab support
By Ariela Karmel and Stav Levaton
Hawkish leader says he won't serve with Netanyahu, blames Eisenkot for failed campaign; Joint List chief notes 'historic moment,' says party won't join coalition but cites 'awful 4 years' as reason to help unseat Netanyahu
A screenshot of footage showing right-wing protesters shouting slogans outside Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot's home in Herzliya, November 1, 2026. (Screenshot, Channel 12)
Yashar slams Netanyahu’s ‘rotten’ politics after protester shouts Eisenkot ‘murdered’ his own son
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Jacob Magid
Op-ed
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For pro-Israel diaspora, Israel’s Arab voters are a point of pride. For Israeli Jews, they’re a national security threat
Jacob Magid
Lazar Focus podcast
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How Trump could break Israel’s post-election deadlock
By Lazar Berman
People call for the formation of a Jewish-Arab government during a protest following the election, in Tel Aviv, October 31, 2026. (David Goldman/AP)
November 3, 2026, 10:34 am
Arab parties may be kingmakers, but will Jewish opposition leaders accept them?
Years of political exclusion and post-Oct. 7 tensions raise questions about whether Zionist parties will work with the Arab factions that could empower them to form a government
By Ruth Eglash
A screenshot of video shared on social media showing Saef Abu Reash celebrating after his release from jail on November 1, 2026. (X screenshot)
November 3, 2026, 5:10 am
Freed suspect in alleged Ra’am vote-buying scheme: Cop asked why Arabs are unhappy with Ben Gvir, ‘he’s done only good by you’
Saef Abu Reash tells Israeli daily his arrest was ‘pure political persecution,’ says officers presented no evidence of alleged wrongdoing but pressed him on whom he encouraged people to vote for
By Noam Lehmann
Mellanox founder Eyal Waldman speaks at Birthright Israel's international business summit in Tel Aviv, Nov. 2, 2026. (Shooka Cohen)
November 2, 2026, 9:08 pm
Mellanox founder warns Israel will be in ‘serious trouble’ without a new government
Eyal Waldman accuses Netanyahu government of ‘taking the country down,’ weakening democratic checks, and driving international isolation; says a new coalition is key to fixing it
By Sharon Wrobel
View of the Beersheba District Court Hall in southern Israel on December 1, 2019.(Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 2, 2026, 5:10 pm
Suspect in alleged Ra’am bribery scheme freed from house arrest, another kept in jail
Several vote-buying suspects still under house arrest; one reportedly says he felt ‘humiliated’ by police; lawyer for another says no cash found in client’s home
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Shas faction meeting in Knesset, January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 2, 2026, 3:55 pm
Netanyahu defends Shas party chair as Deri faces uncertain political future
Prime minister calls Aryeh Deri and Shas important partners of the right-wing bloc amid reports of possible party effort to oust its leader following poor election showing
By ToI Staff
1st row: Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman, B'Yachad leader Naftali Bennett and No. 2 Yair Lapid; 2nd row: Democrats leader Yair Golan, Yashar Leader Gadi Eisenkot. (Tal Gal/Flash90, Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90, Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90, Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 2, 2026, 6:18 am
Bennett, Golan pledge to back Eisenkot for PM, as bloc mulls which coalition to seek
Anti-Netanyahu’s bloc’s final member, Avigdor Liberman, said to criticize Yashar party head over push for government with Arab parties; PM reportedly says no unity talks if Knesset speaker replaced
By ToI Staff
(L to R): Central Elections Committee acting director Dean Livne, Shin Bet chief David Zini, CEC chairman Noam Sohlberg and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, in a video message published on November 1, 2026. (Courtesy)
November 1, 2026, 11:41 pm
Alongside Zini and AG, election chief stresses election ‘conducted properly,’ results won’t change
Sohlberg says suspicions of foreign interference do not undermine results; Likud: ‘Dark cloud’ hangs over results until probe done; Eisenkot: Likud trying to delegitimize results
By ToI Staff, Noam Lehmann and Nava Freiberg
Illustrative: A man casts his ballot at a polling station in the northern Arab town of Umm al-Fahm on election day, October 27, 2026. (AHMAD GHARABLI/ AFP)
November 1, 2026, 10:51 pm
Netanyahu’s voter fraud claims rest on nebulous cases and dubious conduct by police, Shin Bet
Election officials deny issues under investigation cast aspersions on results, which led to loss of PM’s parliamentary majority on heels of unprecedented Arab turnout
By Noam Lehmann
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)
November 1, 2026, 10:22 pm
Tel Aviv bourse chief warns political deadlock threatens growth, urges broad government
As coalition talks look set to drag on, head of TASE warns of economic cost of instability, saying investors need certainty, consistent policies and a clear economic outlook
By Sharon Wrobel
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 after Israel’s election. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)
November 1, 2026, 9:41 pm
Joint List did not sing the Palestinian anthem; its political positions pose far bigger challenges
Song performed at election event, which drew a false accusation from Netanyahu, is Hadash’s unofficial anthem. But the principles behind it could prove an insurmountable obstacle to collaboration with Zionist opposition
By Nurit Yohanan
Can Israel once again be a 'light unto the nations'?(AI-generated image/OpenAI)
November 1, 2026, 7:05 pm
To Israel’s future prime minister-designate: Remember what binds us
Your decisions will shape Israel’s future and its ties with Jews worldwide. This is a chance to restore the principles that earned our love and respect
By Charles Bronfman and Jeffrey R. Solomon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot (R). (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Jack GUEZ/AFP)
November 1, 2026, 5:57 pm
Netanyahu lost his majority, but can the opposition form a government? A look at possible paths ahead
Anti-Netanyahu parties control 67 of the 120 Knesset seats, but would need to make difficult compromises even to form a minority government; Netanyahu could exploit their divisions to remain in power
By Ariela Karmel
Political correspondent Ariela Karmel joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/Ra'am)
November 1, 2026, 2:41 pm
Daily Briefing November 1: Why the first Jewish-Arab coalition failed
Political correspondent Ariela Karmel on possible paths to forming a government, the arrows in Eisenkot’s quiver he could use to push forward legislation, and a look back at June 2022
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ariela Karmel
Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot alongside members of his party at the party’s election headquarters in Tel Aviv, following the closing of polling stations and the release of exit poll results on Israel’s general election night, October 28, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 31, 2026, 11:01 pm
Eisenkot vows to swiftly utilize Knesset majority ‘against Oct. 7 government’
Yashar party chief says willing to work with any MK who accepts his conditions for a Zionist government, which include military draft for all, accepting Israel as Jewish state, recognizing Hamas as a terror group
By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
A voter casts his ballot at a school used as a polling station during Israel’s general election in Tel Aviv, October 27, 2026. (AP/David Goldman)
October 31, 2026, 5:19 pm
Opposition bloc said weighing direct elections for prime minister to break political deadlock
Citing sources in bloc, Channel 12 says parties considering model last proposed by Netanyahu in 2021. Would need 61 votes to pass in the Knesset; anti-Netanyahu parties have 67
By ToI Staff
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