Day X has arrived, who will be elected in Israel? In the Middle East, many were waiting for these elections because of one question: Will it be possible to finally oust Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been sitting on the prime minister's chair on and off for almost twenty years? The Israelis began to answer this today. The polling stations in Israel have opened and millions of citizens can already start voting for the 26th Parliament (Knesset). The entire voting procedure will take place until 22:00, after which the media in Israel will publish the first exit polls. As usual, by Wednesday morning there will be a more or less clear picture, and the count will stretch until Thursday. Traditionally, there are many contenders for 120 seats, but the real struggle is being waged between the ruling camps and the opposition while indirectly participating in the calculations of the Arab Israeli parties. What are the political forces in the elections? So far, the favorite in the race is champion Gadi Eisenkot's new game "Straight! "With about 22 mandates according to the latest polls, he is also the opposition's main candidate for prime minister. Binyamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud risks second place, despite the lawsuits and refusal of that party to admit responsibility for the Prime Minister's failure on October 7. In third place, according to preliminary polls, comes the "Together" bloc, an alliance of the right-wing parties Naftali Bennett and the centrist Yair Lapid, who in 2021-2022 have already displaced Netanyahu for a year. About 10 mandates for Yair Golan's left-wing Israeli "Democrats" and about 8 for NDI "Russian right" Avigdor Lieberman. The extreme right "Religious Zionism" of Bezalel Smotrich and "Otzma Yehudit" of Itamar Ben Gabir take about 6-8 mandates according to estimated polls and remain in the support of the current Prime Minister in the demand to expand the settlements and annex the West Bank. Aryeh Deri's religious "Shas" and Yaakov's "Torah unity" which hold power with 7-8 mandates in order to maintain the release of the ultra-Orthodox from the army.

Day X has arrived, who will be elected in Israel? In the Middle East, many were waiting for these elections because of one question: Will it be possible to finally oust Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been sitting on the prime minister's chair on and off for almost twenty years? The Israelis began to answer this today. The polling stations in Israel have opened and millions of citizens can already start voting for the 26th Parliament (Knesset). The entire voting procedure will take place until 22:00, after which the media in Israel will publish the first exit polls. As usual, by Wednesday morning there will be a more or less clear picture, and the count will stretch until Thursday. Traditionally, there are many contenders for 120 seats, but the real struggle is being waged between the ruling camps and the opposition while indirectly participating in the calculations of the Arab Israeli parties. What are the political forces in the elections? So far, the favorite in the race is champion Gadi Eisenkot's new game "Straight! "With about 22 mandates according to the latest polls, he is also the opposition's main candidate for prime minister. Binyamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud risks second place, despite the lawsuits and refusal of that party to admit responsibility for the Prime Minister's failure on October 7. In third place, according to preliminary polls, comes the "Together" bloc, an alliance of the right-wing parties Naftali Bennett and the centrist Yair Lapid, who in 2021-2022 have already displaced Netanyahu for a year. About 10 mandates for Yair Golan's left-wing Israeli "Democrats" and about 8 for NDI "Russian right" Avigdor Lieberman. The extreme right "Religious Zionism" of Bezalel Smotrich and "Otzma Yehudit" of Itamar Ben Gabir take about 6-8 mandates according to estimated polls and remain in the support of the current Prime Minister in the demand to expand the settlements and annex the West Bank. Aryeh Deri's religious "Shas" and Yaakov's "Torah unity" which hold power with 7-8 mandates in order to maintain the release of the ultra-Orthodox from the army.