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Israel Election By The Numbers: Who Might Form The Next Government?

 The Oasis Reporters

November 1, 2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An election billboards for the campaign of Yashar Party leader Gadi Eizenkotof with the message in Hebrew: "Our wish is change!"
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Digital Storytelling Team, The Conversation

Israel has voted and neither Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition or Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc are going to secure the 61 seats required to form government.

 

 

 

One of the two blocs will now need to begin the long and complicated task of negotiations between the smaller factional parties to form a government. Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, will decide who gets the first chance to do so.

 

 

 

 

This could involve the Arab parties, who may hold the balance of power. Whether either bloc would welcome an Arab-aligned party into their coalition, however, remains to be seen.




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