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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Election Day

People vote in a voting tent on the day of the US presidential election, in Burnsville, North Carolina, on November 5, 2024. (Allison Joyce / AFP)
November 5, 2024, 3:45 pm
US voters head to polls with candidates in dead heat at end of turbulent campaign
A race upended by Biden’s withdrawal, assassination attempts on Trump and historic features of Harris’s candidacy narrows down to 7 swing states; more than 80 million voted early
By Joseph Ax
An election official sorts mail-in ballots at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix, Arizona, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Serkan Gurbuz, File)
November 5, 2024, 10:08 am
Trump wants the winner to be declared on election night. Here’s why that’s unlikely
Quick results impossible due to decentralized, multi-layered nature of US election and unprecedentedly high number of mail-in ballots, which some states prohibit tallying early
By Nicholas Riccardi
Hamas's Gaza Strip leader Yahya Sinwar in a tunnel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, October 10, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 29, 2024, 1:42 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 29: Day 146 – Sinwar claims Hamas is winning the war. Here’s why
Editor David Horovitz on the similar but opposite victory narratives of Hamas and Israel, more efforts to stir up Temple Mount trouble during Ramadan, and Haredi military conscription
By ToI Staff
A truck in flames following an alleged Israeli airstrike near the Syrian town of Qusayr, February 25, 2024. (X screengrab: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 28, 2024, 1:06 pm
Daily Briefing Feb 28: Day 145 – Israel’s conflict with Iran comes into focus in Syria
Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani on the PA government’s resignation; reporter Canaan Lidor on Tiberias as a political microcosm, and a stand taken by South African Jewry
By ToI Staff
Families of hostages set up booths next to polling stations during local elections on February 27, 2024, reminding voters to 'Choose the hostages' (Courtesy Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
February 27, 2024, 2:11 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 27: Day 144 – Israelis cast votes in local elections, amid war
Zman Yisrael chief editor Biranit Goren and political correspondent Tal Schneider discuss municipal elections, shift in Haredi draft issue and meaning of latest Oct. 7 revelation
By ToI Staff
File - Interior Minister Moshe Arbel holds a press conference on February 12, 2024, ahead of municipal elections scheduled for February 27. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 12, 2024, 8:48 pm
With ballot boxes for troops in Gaza, Israel readies for local elections in wartime
Vote initially scheduled for October to finally take place February 27, though 12 municipal authorities whose residents have been evacuated will still need to wait
By Jeremy Sharon
Voter casts their ballot at a polling station in Bnei Brak on November 1, 2022 (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
November 1, 2022, 1:21 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 1: Election Day redux; Herzog’s White House visit
Knesset reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn looks at possible voting factors; US correspondent Luke Tress discusses the Israeli president’s US visit and a Brooklyn yeshiva’s steep fine
By ToI Staff
Hospital staff transport a new patient to the coronavirus ward of the Ziv medical center in the northern Israeli city of Safed, January 7, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
March 23, 2021, 2:03 pm
Number of seriously ill COVID patients drops to 499, lowest figure in 3 months
Health Ministry reports over 4.6 million people fully inoculated and a 1.6% positive infection rate, signaling continued drop in infections
By ToI Staff
Illustrative -- Police officer on January 11, 2021 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
March 22, 2021, 2:47 pm
20,000 cops to be deployed to secure Tuesday’s election
3,500 officers, some undercover, will wear bodycams at polling stations to prevent election tampering and voter fraud; 400 locations said identified as ‘prone to trouble’
By ToI Staff
Israeli children accompany their father in a polling booth during Knesset elections at a polling station in Rosh Ha'ayin, on September 17, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)
November 7, 2019, 11:13 pm
Kahlon said planning to nix public day off in the event of 3rd elections
Finance minister, who doesn’t want to run for Knesset again, reportedly seeking to cancel vacation day, keep schools open if Israel goes to another national vote
By ToI Staff
Central Election Committee workers prepare materials to be sent to polling stations ahead of election day, March 6, 2019. (Flash90)
March 19, 2019, 6:00 am
Boxing the ballot: Behind the planning of Israel’s largest-ever election
As politicians traverse the country wooing voters, intense preparations are underway to ensure every citizen can participate in the democratic process
By Raoul Wootliff
People on the sidewalk cheer and heckle Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump as he leaves a polling site on East 56th Street, November 8, 2016 in New York. (AFP PHOTO / US-VOTE / Bryan R. Smith)
November 8, 2016, 9:22 pm
Trump garners boos and cheers as he votes in NY
‘New York hates you!’ protesters shout as Republican nominee heads to polls; billionaire says chances looking ‘very good’
By ToI Staff and AFP
People vote for the next US president in the general election at a polling station in a school gymnasium in New York, November 8, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck)
November 8, 2016, 4:53 pm
Long lines but few glitches as America goes to the polls
Despite anxiety over voter intimidation, fraud and unsubstantiated claims of rigging in run-up to Election Day, morning brings relative quiet nationwide
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
Karen Terban (left) and her fellow Hillary activists hawking Hillary pins on an Upper West Side sidewalk on Monday afternoon, November 7, 2016 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
November 8, 2016, 1:54 pm
Looking for Trump voters on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
A liberal, well-off neighborhood that traditionally votes Democrat shows every sign of following suit this year
By Jessica Steinberg
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during their presidential debate on September 26, 2016 (CNN screenshot)
November 7, 2016, 2:41 pm
Israelis think Trump better for them, back Clinton anyway – poll
Survey contrasts with findings among dual citizens who voted in the election, who leaned toward the GOP candidate
By Tamar Pileggi
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