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  Election campaign billboards featuring Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot and Likud party chairman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside opposition leaders are displayed along a roadside in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, ahead of Israel’s upcoming general elections. (photo credit: Sharon Leibel/Flash90) Israelis went to the polls in extraordinary numbers on Tuesday, delivering an election result that, according to initial exit polls , left neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot with a clear path to forming a government. The projections put both blocs around the 50-something mark, with Arab parties slowly approaching a historic 20 seats. The figures are preliminary, and the final seat distribution could still change. Nevertheless, they raise a question that neither leader can easily avoid: What happens when two rival political camps emerge from an election without the parliamentary majority needed to govern? Go to the full...

  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud led with approximately 27% of the vote after the first 100,000 ballots were counted, the Central Election Committee shared at about 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar held about 17% of the vote, while Naftali Bennett’s B’Yachad sat at nearly 9%.

    Netanyahu has lost, and the October 7 government is going home!” former prime minister and B'Yachad party leader Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday evening as Election Day came to a close.. yes, but election result is speaking the contrary based on the result seen so far. Eisenkot declares victory as opposition bloc leads Netanyahu's, but neither have clear path to majority • Arab parties skyrocket as Netanyahu's right-wing partners fall ㅤ Bennett said the Netanyahu-aligned bloc fell from 68 to 50 Knesset seats, according to exit poll data, but he cautioned that the final results could still change as the votes are counted throughout the night. He added that leaders of the bloc seeking to replace Netanyahu were continuing talks and coordinating efforts to form a new government. "Now, let's get to work,” Bennett said. "We have a country to fix!”

  A SUPPORTER holds up a sign of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in support, just as the first exit polls were publicized, on October 27, 2026 at the Likud election headquarters in Jerusalem. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) “Only Bibi!” supporters shouted at Likud’s election headquarters in Jerusalem on Tuesday night, where confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remained strong even as initial exit polls left his bloc short of a parliamentary majority . Classic Israeli songs played in Mizrahi renditions. Journalists filled the venue, surrounded by the party’s blue and white colors and campaign posters carrying the slogan, which rhymed in the original Hebrew, “Either the Right or Palestine.” Of the polls, Channel 14’s offered a substantially more favorable picture for Likud than the other main broadcasters. But for Meir Cohen, a longtime Likud member, asked how Netanyahu would navigate the uncertainty ahead and assemble a government, the answer was ...

A polling station in Herzliya, Israel, on Oct. 27, 2026, as Israelis head to the polls in the country's first national election since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre. (Efrat Lachter for Fox News Digital.) Israelis turned out in exceptionally high numbers Tuesday for the country’s first national election since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, with initial exit polls showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud emerging as the largest party but his governing coalition falling short of a parliamentary majority, potentially opening the door to a change in leadership. The projections released by Israel’s three major television networks after polls closed at 10 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET) showed Likud winning 25 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, compared with 23 seats for former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party in Channels 12 and 13 exit polls, and 21 seats according to Kan 11. The projected parliamentary balance showed 50 seats for Netanyahu’s right-wing and reli...

  The U.S. Department of Justice is seen on September 26, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) A federal judge has rejected the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) attempt to file new criminal charges against two former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) counterintelligence officials who were accused of lying to Congress about their knowledge of Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop. Late Monday night, former Deputy Assistant Director Nikki Cole Floris, 46, and former Section Chief Bradley Benavides, 56, were charged with obstruction of a congressional proceeding. On Tuesday, however, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said he would not sign off on the new criminal charges because prosecutors could not take that step without judicial review. Filing an unsworn complaint on the public docket and bypassing judicial review, he explained, is unheard of. “We have never had complaints filed that are unsigned,” Faruqui said. “It is inappropriate. It harms the defendants.”...