The results of the Israeli elections are not yet clear, but some results can already be summarized based on the results of counting 85.6% of the ballot boxes in the Israeli parliamentary elections, the bloc led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party receives 53 mandates, the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot 48, Arab parties 19. For a majority in the Knesset you need 61 seats. Thus, none of the main political camps is yet able to form a government independently. At the same time, Arab parties showed historically high results, which makes coalition negotiations even more difficult. The turnout was 77.7%, the highest in more than two decades. On the eve of the elections, a scandal broke out surrounding a possible new IDF military operation against Iran. According to CNN, Netanyahu asked to renew the joint strikes with the United States, but the Donald Trump administration refused to agree immediately. One of the factors, according to an Israeli source from Channel 12, was Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir's warning that a military operation could lead to the postponement of the vote. Netanyahu's office called a similar publication on CNN fake. The chairman of the opposition Eisenkot called on the heads of the army and intelligence not to give in to political pressures and not to allow the use of national security issues for Netanyahu's interests. Netanyahu himself, on the contrary, declared a "historic opportunity", together with Trump, to eliminate the Iranian threat once and for all. For Eisenkot, the issue of responsibility for the failure of the Israeli security services on October 7, 2023, since his son was killed in the battles in Gaza, is also essential. The opposition leaders previously promised to establish a government committee to investigate the circumstances of the Hamas attack and the subsequent failures. Netanyahu, who opposed such an investigation for three years.

The results of the Israeli elections are not yet clear, but some results can already be summarized based on the results of counting 85.6% of the ballot boxes in the Israeli parliamentary elections, the bloc led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party receives 53 mandates, the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot 48, Arab parties 19. For a majority in the Knesset you need 61 seats. Thus, none of the main political camps is yet able to form a government independently. At the same time, Arab parties showed historically high results, which makes coalition negotiations even more difficult. The turnout was 77.7%, the highest in more than two decades. On the eve of the elections, a scandal broke out surrounding a possible new IDF military operation against Iran. According to CNN, Netanyahu asked to renew the joint strikes with the United States, but the Donald Trump administration refused to agree immediately. One of the factors, according to an Israeli source from Channel 12, was Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir's warning that a military operation could lead to the postponement of the vote. Netanyahu's office called a similar publication on CNN fake. The chairman of the opposition Eisenkot called on the heads of the army and intelligence not to give in to political pressures and not to allow the use of national security issues for Netanyahu's interests. Netanyahu himself, on the contrary, declared a "historic opportunity", together with Trump, to eliminate the Iranian threat once and for all. For Eisenkot, the issue of responsibility for the failure of the Israeli security services on October 7, 2023, since his son was killed in the battles in Gaza, is also essential. The opposition leaders previously promised to establish a government committee to investigate the circumstances of the Hamas attack and the subsequent failures. Netanyahu, who opposed such an investigation for three years.