Sources in the change bloc told Walla on Tuesday that there will be no second chance, and that party leaders must be ready to break promises and make painful compromises to form a government.
The results put B’Yachad broadly in line with pre-election expectations, although its projected support remained well below the 24 seats Yesh Atid won independently in the November 2022 election.
The projections would give the two parties combined either 18 or 19 seats in the 120-member Knesset, compared with their five seats each in the outgoing parliament.
Yisrael Beytenu, led by Avigdor Liberman, is projected to win 7 to 8 seats in the next Knesset, exit polls suggested on the evening of October 27 in Israel.
Israeli election exit polls project nine seats for Yair Golan's Democrats, potentially more than doubling the party's parliamentary representation as coalition negotiations loom.
Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party added former Likud MK Gotliv to its slate, while RZP ran in a technical bloc with Zehut, led by Moshe Feiglin, in an effort to help clear the electoral threshold.
The memory of October 2000 has not faded, but it has been overtaken by the reality of the past four years, under a government that has done far more than neglect Arab citizens.
Both Shas and UTJ are part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political bloc, and their combined seat total could prove crucial in determining whether he can secure a 61-seat majority.
Netanyahu, Eisenkot blocs still deadlocked despite coalition lead • Arab parties predicted to reach combined seat total of 16-19, complicating efforts to form coalition
The 3.25% threshold is the minimum percentage of the national vote a party needs to win to be allocated any seats in the next Knesset.
In Umm al-Fahm, turnout reached 56.1% by 6 p.m., compared with a final turnout of 51.33% in 2022, an increase of 4.77 percentage points, with several hours of voting still remaining.
