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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Russian President at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 22, 2026. (Ramil Sitdikov / POOL / AFP)
January 28, 2026, 6:42 am
Abbas signs decree seen aimed at barring Hamas from participating in local elections
Amendment to election law requires all candidates to sign pledge accepting PLO ‘national program,’ which includes recognizing Israel, two-state solution and renouncing terror
By Jacob Magid
Avi Slama, the newly elected mayor of Netanya, celebrates his victory after the polls close in the Netanya mayoral election at his campaign headquarters in Netanya, January 20, 2026. (Tal Gal/Flash90)
January 21, 2026, 10:56 am
Likud candidate wins special mayoral vote in Netanya after longtime mayor’s death
Avi Slama secures 68% of vote, trouncing acting mayor Tali Mulner’s 27%, in election called after previous mayor Miriam Feirberg-Ikar died of illness while in office
By ToI Staff
This handout photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on February 27, 2024, shows soldiers casting their municipal elections ballots at a polling site in the Gaza Strip, amid the war there against Hamas. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 27, 2024, 9:30 am
Israelis vote in most of country for twice-delayed local elections under shadow of war
Elections for cities, towns, regional councils held amid Hamas war, conflict in north; extra absentee ballots mean results only likely Wed.; in some border areas, no vote till Nov.
By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, greets National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset on May 23, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)
February 21, 2024, 5:17 pm
Accusing left of forsaking Jewishness, Likud campaigns with Otzma Yehudit in Tel Aviv
Despite PM’s calls for unity during war, parties tap into secular-religious divisions in the metropolis, urge preservation of its ‘Jewish heritage and character’
By Sam Sokol
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
Illustrative: A man casts his ballot at a voting station in Israel's municipal elections, October 30, 2018, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 31, 2023, 1:44 pm
Municipal elections delayed again due to war, to be held February 27
Cabinet agrees to postpone ballot for the sake of candidates on reserve duty, after army says it won’t be able to release nearly 700 on active duty in time for vote
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: A man casts his ballot at a voting station in Israel's municipal elections, October 30, 2018, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 19, 2023, 3:44 pm
Pushing to again delay municipal elections, Smotrich urges Netanyahu to get involved
Far-right Religious Zionism leader asks PM to convene meeting of coalition party chiefs to decide issue; vote was previously postponed by three months because of war
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: A man casts his ballot at a voting station in Israel's municipal elections, October 30, 2018, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 11, 2023, 7:24 pm
Local elections to be postponed by 3 months as country likely faces long war
Interior Ministry says law will ‘freeze’ current situation, allowing incumbents to stay on; new date to be set for January 30, 2024
By Michael Horovitz
A bird's-eye view of about 2,000 worshipers as they attend the Yom Kippur Ne'ilah prayer in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on October 5, 2022. (Courtesy of Rosh Yehudi)
September 21, 2023, 3:17 pm
Annual Yom Kippur mass prayer tests the limits of Tel Aviv’s vaunted liberalism
City has prohibited the placing of a divider between men and women at popular street event that draws 2,000 Orthodox and secular participants; as things stand, it won’t go ahead
By Canaan Lidor
Ron Cobi, a former mayor of Tiberias and a candidate for the job, stands atop a hill overlooking his city in Israel on August 22, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
September 20, 2023, 10:42 am
Local elections turn placid Tiberias into unlikely front in Israel’s societal clash
Haredi and secularist extremism, as well as the alleged involvement of a former politician with a criminal record, are muddying the lakeside city’s political waters
By Canaan Lidor
Sondos Alhoot, a Yesh Atid member and a candidate for Jerusalem city council in the 'Kol Toshaveha' slate in the 2023 municipal elections, March 9, 2023, in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)
September 8, 2023, 3:48 am
The woman who teaches Jewish Israelis how to protest in Arabic
‘I want to be a bridge between communities,’ says Sondos Alhoot, an Arabic and Hebrew teacher and social activist who dreams of one day being elected to the Knesset
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Activists march with placards denouncing the violent crimes in Arab communities on August 6, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
September 7, 2023, 11:01 pm
Government said weighing postponing elections in 12 Arab localities due to crime
Drastic measure would aim to prevent criminal interference in municipal votes, report says, amid series of deadly attacks and threats against local officials
By ToI Staff
Nazareth Mayor Ali Salam after a meeting with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid outside the Foreign Ministry offices in Jerusalem, May 22, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 31, 2023, 11:19 am
2 arrested for threatening Nazareth mayor, as crime wave hits upcoming election
Suspects in targeting of Ali Salam are questioned, as epidemic of violence in Arab community increasingly affects incumbent politicians and candidates in Nazareth and elsewhere
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Police at the scene of a shooting in the central Arab city of Tira, August 21, 2023. (Israel Police)
August 29, 2023, 3:59 am
Man killed in Lod as death toll from violent crime wave in Arab community nears 160
34-year-old dies of wounds in latest shooting, hours after anti-crime mayoral candidate and relatives shot in Nazareth
By ToI Staff
The scene of a shooting in Nazareth, August 28, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 28, 2023, 11:21 pm
Anti-crime mayoral candidate, two others shot in Nazareth
Musab Dukhan, his brother and his cousin lightly injured in attack, according to reports, in latest incident of local Arab politicians being targeted, likely by underworld gangs
By ToI Staff
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