{"id":660277,"date":"2026-10-29T04:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/660277\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T04:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:36:10","slug":"israel-election-2026-seat-results-steady-as-elections-committee-begins-counting-absentee-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/660277\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Election 2026 | Seat Results Steady as Elections Committee Begins Counting Absentee Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Hundreds of Israeli writers, artists and creators, including globally renowned actor Itay Tiran and singer Achinoam Nini, joined a petition Wednesday calling on opposition bloc leaders to &#8220;join forces in a bold, groundbreaking and historic act&#8221; in light of the emerging election results, and to &#8220;stop the chaos from continuing under the ultra-far-right-wing government and Netanyahu.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\"><a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" href=\"https:\/\/atzuma.co.il\/sign\/15BHUR-1?ref=cy6kYR\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In the full petition<\/a>, the signatories write: &#8220;We, writers and poets, theater professionals, multidisciplinary artists and cultural journalists, call on the entire Change Bloc, across its Jewish and Arab factions, to unite as a single alliance and join together in a bold, groundbreaking and historic act to create a better, more equal, tolerant and shared reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">&#8220;We ask that you rise above the prejudice, racism and incitement to which we have become accustomed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">&#8220;The Arab parties are extending a hand to repair the damage, and we must not ignore that outstretched hand,&#8221; they added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Israeli writers, artists and creators, including globally renowned actor Itay Tiran and singer Achinoam Nini, joined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,58195,43],"class_list":["post-660277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660277","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=660277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}