Israeli Election

Explaining Israel's elections: Ten scenarios Israelis should prepare for in 2026 - opinion

There could be five races again with no coalition formed, as we had before, and we might end up staying in election mode for quite some time.

|ByGIL HOFFMAN
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, cast their vote during elections for the Likud Central Committee, at the Jerusalem International Convention Center, Nov.25, 2025.
Dr. Jeremy M. Levin, former CEO Teva Pharmaceuticals

Israel’s future will be decided by those who show up

Fly & Vote is not merely a slogan. It is a declaration that Israelis abroad still believe they are responsible for the future of their country.

|ByJEREMY LEVIN, IN COLLBORATIONS WITH THE AID COALITION
MK Galit Distal-Atbaryan arrives to a Likud party meeting at the Knesset. December 3, 2023.

Likud MK Galit Distel-Atbaryan says she will not run in party primaries, next Knesset elections

Before her current role, Distel-Atbaryan held the position of Israel’s public diplomacy minister, which she resigned from one week after the October 7 massacre.

|BySHIR PERETS
‘THOSE WHO lionize Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will portray the operation as an unmitigated success; those who loathe them will dismiss it as a total failure. The sober truth lies in between.’ Here, Netanyahu speaks to the media in Jerusalem in March.

Without Netanyahu, Likud expected to fall below 20 seats, poll shows

Among opposition voters, 42.4% said Likud would receive 10-20 seats without Netanyahu, while 37.7% said it would fall below 10 seats. Only 8.3% said Likud could still reach 30 or more seats.

|ByMIKI LEVIN

Israel's struggle for religious freedom in a Jewish theocracy

The struggle for religious pluralism in general in Israel is not a hot item politically – only when a certain powerful minority can wag the dogs of the party in power.

AUGUST 10, 2022ByILAN CHAIM
A rock fell on the egalitarian section at the Western Wall shortly after the end of the fast of Tisha Be’av on July 22, 2018.

The hidden stakes of Israel’s fifth election - opinion

This anyone-but-Bibi caucus is the reason why Israel faces its fifth election in four years.

AUGUST 6, 2022ByTED LAPKIN
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett glances at Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar during a debate in the Knesset plenum, earlier this year.

Gideon Sa'ar's journalist wife resigns over election coverage limitations

Geula Even-Sa'ar resigned from Kan over the ethics committee deciding that she had a conflict of interest and couldn't present her show.

JULY 31, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Then-Likud parliament member Gideon Saar and his wife Geula attend an event with Saar supporters after losing in the elections for the Likud leadership, in Or Yehuda, January 2, 2020.

Israel Elections: Using settlement activity as a campaign tactic

The Nahala Movement campaign is an effort to focus the attention on the settlements, and to bring the spotlight back on the issue of a Palestinian state.

JULY 22, 2022ByHERB KEINON
Settlers from the Nahala Settlement Movement beginning to march from the Gush Etzion junction on their way to establish illegal outposts on Wednesday, and, on the right, Israeli and Palestinian detractors protesting the action.

Counting days to the next Israeli election - editorial

Just a couple of weeks into the current campaign, and already both the silliness and the nastiness of election campaigns are shining bright.

JULY 18, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Ministers gather for a Knesset cabinet meeting on July 10th 2022.

Israel Elections: What are essential attributes of a good leader? - opinion

Interestingly enough, in just a few verses in our weekly portion (Numbers 27:15-17), we have four different answers to that question.

JULY 15, 2022ByDAVID GOLINKIN
DAVID BEN-GURION: ‘I’m the prime minister of 2.3 million prime ministers,’ he told JFK.

Ahead of Israeli elections, keep politics civil - editorial

Lower your mud-slinging hands, politicians; let us keep to tarbut hadiun (discussion culture) and see, for once, a respectful election.

JULY 3, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL
WHO WILL greet Biden? Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid or Benjamin Netanyahu?

Knesset dissolution bill passes initial reading

Vote passes 110-0 • Coalition threatens to bring forward bill barring criminal defendant from forming gov’t

JUNE 22, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
A vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset, at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, on June 22, 2022

Comptroller criticizes three-fold cost rise in overseeing elections

The budget for oversight of polling stations tripled over the past three elections,

MAY 10, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
Israel Elections: A polling station in Jerusalem, as Israelis vote in their general elections, on March 23, 2021.

Bill to let Israelis vote overseas submitted by departing MK

Currently, Israel limits voting abroad to diplomats and emissaries of Zionist institutions, who vote in embassies and consulates. Regular citizens and students abroad don't get to vote.

FEBRUARY 23, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
A voting box in the last Israeli election in 2015