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Officials count the remaining ballots from soldiers and absentees at the Knesset in Jerusalem, a day after the general elections, April 10, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
2019 Knesset elections
After night of vote counting, New Right appears to make it into Knesset
By TOI staff
Tallying ballots from soldiers, diplomats and prisoners to be completed Thursday morning, with Bennett and Shaked’s party 0.01% over mark; 40,000 votes still to be counted
Likud party supporters celebrate as the results in the Israeli general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 09, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)
The kids are all right-wing: Why Israel’s younger voters are more conservative
By LAURA E. ADKINS and Ben Sales
President Reuven Rivlin speaks with the press after casting his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem, during elections for the Knesset, on April 9, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Rivlin to meet next week with party chiefs on naming next PM — on air
By Alexander Fulbright
A hidden camera allegedly snuck into a polling station in an Arab town by a Likud observer during Israel's parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019. (Courtesy Hadash-Ta'al)
PR agency takes credit for hidden cameras at Arab polling stations
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts after addressing supporters at his Likud party election headquarters in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on election night early on April 10, 2019. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
April 11, 2019, 8:40 am
Israel’s election exposes its deep political divisions
A secular, US-educated millionaire with a propensity for cognac and cigars, Netanyahu paints himself the champion of Israel’s downtrodden Jewish peripheries
By Josef Federman
Officials count the remaining ballots from soldiers and absentees at the Knesset in Jerusalem, a day after the general elections, April 10, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 11, 2019, 6:01 am
After night of vote counting, New Right appears to make it into Knesset
Tallying ballots from soldiers, diplomats and prisoners to be completed Thursday morning, with Bennett and Shaked’s party 0.01% over mark; 40,000 votes still to be counted
By TOI staff
Children watch as an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prepares to cast his vote during Israel's parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019 in Jerusalem. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
April 11, 2019, 5:29 am
Here are the issues Israelis had in mind when voting
The choice between Netanyahu or Gantz, socio-economic issues and the security situation were the top three considerations, but voters are often swayed by how religious they are
By Josefin Dolsten
Likud party supporters celebrate as the results in the Israeli general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 09, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)
April 11, 2019, 4:50 am
The kids are all right-wing: Why Israel’s younger voters are more conservative
While American millennials have a liberal reputation, young Israeli Jews, who have never known a real peace process, identify as right-wing at much higher levels than their parents
By LAURA E. ADKINS and Ben Sales
Officials count the remaining ballots from soldiers and absentees at the Knesset in Jerusalem, a day after the general elections, April 10, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 11, 2019, 12:44 am
Final 265,000 votes being counted, with fate of New Right in the balance
Tallying ballots from soldiers, diplomats and prisoners likely to be completed Thursday morning, with Naftali Bennett’s party 4,300 votes short of entering Knesset
By TOI staff
A hidden camera allegedly snuck into a polling station in an Arab town by a Likud observer during Israel's parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019. (Courtesy Hadash-Ta'al)
April 10, 2019, 11:28 pm
PR agency takes credit for hidden cameras at Arab polling stations
Kaizler Inbar says it worked with Likud to place surveillance, brags it led to lowest level of Arab turnout ‘seen in recent years!’
By TOI staff
Beresheet photographs the dark side of the moon on April 10, 2019 from a height of 2500 km. (courtesy Beresheet engineers)
April 10, 2019, 11:09 pm
Beresheet shines light on dark side of the moon, day before landing
With last successful maneuver, Israel gears up to become 4th country to land on the moon on Thursday
By Melanie Lidman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, surrounded by Likud politicians and his wife Sara, addresses his supporters as the the results of the Israeli general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, in the early hours of April 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
April 10, 2019, 10:04 pm
How will Netanyahu try to stave off indictment, and will he annex settlements?
A day after he won a fifth term, speculation abounds over which ministers, from which parties, the PM will appoint to which jobs — because those choices will point to his strategy
By David Horovitz
El Al Boeing 747-400 at Ben-Gurion International Airport (Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)
April 10, 2019, 9:53 pm
El Al passenger opens emergency door, tries to jump out at JFK
Crew members restrain man who attempts to leap from plane on New York runway
By TOI staff
Members of the Blue White political party Benny Gantz (2L), Boogie Yaalon, Gabi Ashkenazi and Yair Lapid hold a press conference at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 10, 2019. (Flash90)
April 10, 2019, 9:07 pm
Blue and White concedes race, vows to battle Netanyahu from opposition
Benny Gantz says ‘we respect the decision of the people,’ touts support from one million voters; Lapid says centrist alliance will ’embitter the government’s life’
By Alexander Fulbright
Aryeh Deri, head of the Shas party, greets supporters as the results in the Israeli general elections are announced at the party headquarters in Jerusalem, April 09, 2019. (Flash90)
April 10, 2019, 8:59 pm
Despite election success, Deri could be barred from cabinet — report
State prosecutor plans to indict interior minister and head of Shas party on corruption charges, forcing him from his position, report says
By TOI staff
Blue and White No. 2 Yair Lapid speaks to a reporter from Channel 12 outside his home in Tel Aviv on April 10, 2019. (Screen capture: Channel 12)
April 10, 2019, 7:06 pm
‘The 2020 campaign began today,’ Lapid says in apparent admission of defeat
Blue and White leaders to give statement Wednesday evening, are expected to formally concede elections to Netanyahu
By TOI staff
A man inspects the damage to his house caused from a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, near the border with Gaza late on March 25, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 10, 2019, 6:33 pm
A year of clashes and threats of war didn’t budge Gaza border communities’ vote
Towns surrounding the Palestinian enclave, which were hit by hundreds of rockets over the past year, mostly vote for centrist and left-wing parties, save for Likud-bastion Sderot
By Judah Ari Gross
A knife used in a stabbing attempt by a Palestinian woman at the az-Za’ayyem checkpoint between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem, April 10, 2019. (Israel Police)
April 10, 2019, 5:07 pm
Palestinian bus passenger attempts to stab guards at checkpoint; no injuries
Woman draws knife during security check before being subdued by officers, police say
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrates with his wife Sara before addressing Likud supporters as the the results of the Israeli general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, in the early hours of April 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
April 10, 2019, 4:48 pm
Netanyahu won, everyone else lost: 5 takeaways from the 2019 elections
Tuesday’s vote did not provide the ‘upheaval’ the center-left had hoped for. Now Labor is set to dump Gabbay, while Bennett is reduced to hoping the soldiers will save him
By Raoul Wootliff
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