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Knesset elections

Buq'ata mayor William Abu Awad, left, and Salman Owida, Director General of Buq'ata on October 12, 2026. (Courtesy/Saleh Farhat)
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'It all changed after the massacre of Druze in Syria'
In historic first, some Golan Druze, now new citizens, plan to vote in national election
By Diana Bletter
As taboos against naturalization and voting ebb, Buq'ata Mayor William Abu Awad expects many locals to back Benjamin Netanyahu, out of gratitude for Israel's aiding their Syrian brethren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Negev Conference in the southern city of Dimona, southern Israel, July 17, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
August 27, 2026, 4:06 pm
With debutant Winter poised to cannibalize his bloc, Netanyahu has reason to sweat
New People of Israel party seen as most likely to draw votes away from PM’s coalition allies, as well as his own Likud, with rivals and other small right-wing factions already siphoning away support
By Sam Sokol
MK Mansour Abbas at the Knesset on November 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 27, 2026, 8:37 am
As Arab parties answer call for unity, Ra’am seeks to retain role as coalition kingmaker
Factions look to reunify as ‘Joint List’ so as to pool power for community wracked by deadly crime, but Islamist party wants to keep its plans to expand its base and return to government
By Tal Schneider
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid speaks at a Yesh Atid conference in Tel Aviv on September 1, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 2, 2025, 3:57 am
Lapid: If Netanyahu wins the next election, ‘it will be the end of Zionism’
PM’s associate said urging restoration of direct elections for premiership amid polls showing Likud and allies failing to secure a Knesset majority
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)
May 24, 2025, 4:05 am
Poll: Most Israelis think PM cares more about holding power than winning war, freeing hostages
Half of respondents to Channel 12 survey say possible that gov’t could seek to cancel elections by citing national emergency, which Netanyahu denies: ‘This won’t happen. We’re democrats’
By ToI Staff
Naftali Bennett attends a commemoration ceremony for a slain Israeli soldier at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, December 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
April 1, 2025, 9:48 pm
Former PM Naftali Bennett registers new political party ahead of 2026 elections
Recent polls show new party beating out Netanyahu’s Likud if elections were held today, though source close to Bennett says move does not constitute an official announcement
By Sam Sokol
Then-war cabinet ministers Gadi Eisenkot (right) and Benny Gantz hold a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 3, 2025, 6:59 am
Eisenkot said seeking center-left party union in next elections, may want to lead it
With his relationship with party chief Gantz souring, Haaretz says National Unity MK is talking to Opposition Leader Lapid, Democrats head Golan for bloc to counter ex-PM Bennett
By ToI Staff
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters at the party's campaign headquarters in Jerusalem early on November 2, 2022, with his wife Sara at his side, as votes are counted in the general elections. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
November 16, 2023, 11:37 pm
Poll finds Netanyahu would be trounced by Gantz were elections held today
Channel 12 wartime survey finds coalition would crash to 45 Knesset seats, opposition bloc would soar to 70; respondents prefer Gantz to Netanyahu, 41-25%
By ToI Staff
Conservation of the papyrus in the Israel Antiquities Authority Scrolls Conservation Laboratory. (Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority)
September 7, 2022, 4:05 pm
Daily Briefing Sept 7: Gantz’s new slate and First Temple papyrus returns to Israel
Political writer Tal Schneider discusses National Unity party’s candidates; US correspondent Jacob Magid explains US reaction to Abu Akleh probe
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with then justice minister Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset on December 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 30, 2022, 1:16 am
Poll shows Shaked’s Yamina winning 5 seats, capable of giving Netanyahu a majority
Snap survey, taken before Bennett had announced he was handing party leadership to Shaked, puts potential Netanyahu-led bloc at 63 seats in the 120-member Knesset
By ToI Staff
Likud MK David Amsalem attends a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting on June 26, 2022. (Olivier FItoussi/Flash90)
June 27, 2022, 5:12 am
Likud MK bristles at Netanyahu rebuke after welcoming potential coalition with Ra’am
‘He put out a statement to hurt me,’ David Amsalem says in response to ex-PM’s disavowal of comments on adding ‘anti-Zionist’ Islamist faction to a future government
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on June 21, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 21, 2022, 8:53 pm
Gantz throws cold water on possibility of reuniting with Netanyahu
Defense minister calls for ‘broad unity government’ after elections, which Sa’ar predicts will result in renewed gridlock, with neither the ex-PM nor his rivals securing a majority
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on June 12, 2022. (Maya Alleruzzo / POOL / AFP)
June 20, 2022, 8:13 pm
Coalition heads announce vote to dissolve Knesset next week, Lapid to be interim PM
In political earthquake, Bennett and Lapid admit efforts to salvage government have been ‘exhausted’; will deliver primetime televised statement, as Israel faces new elections
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Tal Schneider
File: Israelis count the remaining election ballots, in Jerusalem early on March 4, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 22, 2021, 6:22 pm
Israel has held most frequent elections among democracies since 1996 – report
Knesset elections every 2.3 years on average – the shortest time between cycles among 20 democratic countries examined
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at a memorial ceremony marking 24 years since the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in the Knesset on November 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 25, 2020, 9:24 am
How to end the political deadlock? A minority government… headed by Netanyahu
Blue and White could position itself as a responsible opposition by backing PM’s virus crisis management, and fighting him on everything else. It could always depose him later
By Raphael Ahren
Arab Israelis cast their votes during parliamentary election in the Bedouin town of Rahat near the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on March 2, 2020 (Hazem Bader/AFP)
March 4, 2020, 11:55 pm
Joint List captured almost total Arab vote, pollster calculates
Yousef Makladeh says that many Arabs deserted Zionist parties for the alliance of Arab-majority factions, with party getting some 87% of votes cast by Arabs
By Adam Rasgon
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