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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 562

Knesset elections

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
War cabinet ministers Gadi Eisenkot (right) and Benny Gantz hold a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90/ File)
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
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party at the Knesset on June 18, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 30, 2019, 1:46 pm
Russian roulette: How Liberman hopes to profit from Netanyahu’s defeat
By forcing new elections over ultra-Orthodox draft bill, Yisrael Beytenu chief aims to establish himself as new champion of secular Israel. It’s already gotten him lots of free PR
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem, on Israel's 71st Independence Day, May 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2019, 10:24 pm
Netanyahu advisers said to warn elections won’t give him time to secure immunity
PM now reportedly doing all he can to avoid snap polls, 24 hours before deadline; if deal reached, lack of time will likely force him to give Justice Ministry to URWP’s Smotrich
By Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, speaks with Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, left, in the Knesset, on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2019, 7:51 pm
Netanyahu issues cryptic hint that snap elections may be averted
Addressing Likud secretariat before it votes to approve Kulanu merger, premier says that ‘the clearer it is that we are going to elections, the more likely it is that we won’t’
By ToI Staff
View of election campaign posters showing Benny Ganz (R), Head of Blue and White party and late Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (L), in Jerusalem on April 2, 2019, prior to the Israeli general elections on April 9. (photo credit:
April 24, 2019, 2:12 pm
Demography is (voting) destiny: Ten takeaways from the 2019 election results
Which town voted for Likud in the highest proportions? Which gave the New Right 57% of its vote? What is Jerusalem’s most Meretz-loving neighborhood? Read on to find out
By Simona Weinglass
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