{"id":658427,"date":"2026-10-27T09:15:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658427\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:15:05","slug":"israel-votes-with-netanyahus-future-on-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658427\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel votes with Netanyahu\u2019s future on the line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting began Tuesday in Israel\u2019s parliamentary elections, with more than 7.3 million people eligible to cast ballots to elect the 120-member Knesset.<\/p>\n<p>Polling stations opened at 7 am local time (0500GMT) and are scheduled to close at 10 pm (2000GMT), according to Israel\u2019s Central Elections Committee.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 12,018 polling stations and approximately 18,000 ballot boxes have been prepared nationwide, with around 100,000 election workers deployed.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-seven parties and electoral lists are competing in the elections, with at least 61 seats required to form a governing coalition.<\/p>\n<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voting began Tuesday in Israel\u2019s parliamentary elections, with more than 7.3 million people eligible to cast ballots to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-658427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658427","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=658427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}