{"id":658333,"date":"2026-10-27T06:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658333\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T06:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:46:13","slug":"israels-election-unfolds-under-shadow-of-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658333\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s election unfolds under shadow of Gaza war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Voting began on Tuesday in Israel\u2019s parliamentary elections, with more than 7.3 million people eligible to elect the 120-member Knesset.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Polling stations opened at 7 am local time (0500 GMT) and are scheduled to close at 10 pm (2000 GMT), according to Israel\u2019s Central Elections Committee.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">A total of 12,018 polling stations and around 18,000 ballot boxes have been prepared nationwide, with approximately 100,000 election workers deployed.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Thirty-seven parties and electoral lists are competing, with at least 61 seats needed to form a governing coalition.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The main contenders include Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party, former army chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot\u2019s Yashar party and the Together alliance led by former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Other prominent parties include the Democrats, led by Yair Golan; Yisrael Beiteinu, headed by Avigdor Lieberman; and Jewish Power, led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Palestinian-led parties include the Joint List, headed by Yousef Jabareen, and the United Arab List (Ra\u2019am), led by Mansour Abbas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voting began on Tuesday in Israel\u2019s parliamentary elections, with more than 7.3 million people eligible to elect the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-658333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}