{"id":659849,"date":"2026-10-28T18:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659849\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T18:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:54:15","slug":"early-israeli-election-results-point-to-deadlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659849\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Israeli election results point to deadlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Votes are still being counted after <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/israel-election-2026\/t-79742818\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel&#8217;s crucial election<\/a>. The campaign was framed as a choice between continuity and change, but neither side received a clear mandate to govern. Prime Minister <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/benjamin-netanyahu\/t-19234066\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>&#8216;s right-wing bloc is projected to win the most seats, but not enough for a majority in the 120-seat parliament. The opposition bloc of challenger Gadi Eisenkot would have to rely on an alliance with Arab parties to form a government. With neither side gaining a majority, there could be weeks of coalition talks or even a new election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Votes are still being counted after Israel&#8217;s crucial election. The campaign was framed as a choice between continuity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-659849","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\/659849","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=659849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}