Elections 2022

Amit Segal claims Netanyahu offered him fourth spot on Likud list, 'any ministerial role' in 2022

Segal shared in the video that rather than a ministerial position, he had suggested to Netanyahu that Israel “needs to make some kind of judicial reform.”

Israeli journalist Amit Segal speaks during the Jabotinsky conference in Jerusalem, December 23, 2024.
 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting, this past Sunday. Prime ministers who head large parties are required to succumb to policies that do not tally with the desires or needs of most citizens, says the writer.

Israel's electoral system only harms the country - opinion

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid sit at the center of the front row, with MK Benjamin Netanyahu behind them, in a Knesset inauguration photo earlier this month. Herzog emphasized that Israelis are exhausted from infighting.

Israel elected a far-right government: Where does it go from here? - opinion

 SHAS PARTY members await a meeting with President Isaac Herzog at his official Jerusalem residence on Nov. 9, as Herzog began consulting political leaders regarding the formation of a new government.

Three Ladies, Three Lattes: The election and us


Netanyahu uses empty voting centers photos from 2019 to encourage voting

The message shared by the Likud leader stated that right-wing voting percentages were down used photos from the 2019 elections to illustrate his point.

 RIGHT: Photo from the September 2019 elections shared by then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. LEFT: The same image is shared again by Netanyahu, only this time he claimed it to be from November 2022.

Israel Elections: What do we know halfway through Election Day? - analysis

This is the highest voting percentage since 1999. A high voting percentage pushes up the number of votes needed to pass the electoral threshold, which is 3.25% of the general vote.

 A man casts his vote with his dog at a voting station in Tel Aviv, during the Knesset Elections, on November 1, 2022.

Israel Elections in pictures: Politicians cast their vote

Political leaders voted from across the country in Israel's fifth election in three and a half years.

 A man casts his vote in the Israeli general elections, at a polling station in Jerusalem, on November 1, 2022.

Election Day brings politics to the marketplace

Despite a variety of party affiliations, market-goers shared collective concerns on broad issues.

 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU visits Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market in the run up to next month’s election.

Fiery Youth Party leader Hadar Muchtar says she was attacked outside polling station

Muchtar asked whoever had the recording of the attack to send it to her.

 HADAR MUCHTAR, leader of the Fiery Youth movement, speaks to students from the Blich High School in Ramat Gan on Tuesday.

Herzog at the polling booth excites massive media focus

Video crews and stills photographers had gathered outside the school well before 7:30 a.m. although the president was not scheduled to arrive till 8:30.

 Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the ballot box on Israel's November 2022 elections.

How Israel’s elections may impact the Middle East -analysis 

Lapid and Bennett have made strides in outreach to other countries in the Middle East, but Lapid also rushed the Lebanon deal.

 Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City on September 22, 2022.

Ultra-Orthodox extremists spray polling station in Ramat Beit Shemesh with noxious liquid

Allegedly, ultra-Orthodox extremists who oppose the elections entered the school building overnight and spilled the substance with a pungent smell in the area.

 Workers prepare ballot boxes for the upcoming Israeli elections, at the central elections committee warehouse in Shoham, before they are shipped to polling stations, October 12, 2022.

Israel Election Day: As of 8 p.m., voter turnout 66.3%

General elections begin for the 25th Knesset * Polling stations will be open from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m.

 Israelis cast their ballots in the Israeli general elections, at a voting station in Jerusalem, on November 1, 2022.

Vote! You'll regret it if you don't - editorial

It is understandable that after four elections since April 9, 2019, some Israelis are suffering from what political scientists call voter fatigue.

 IN PREPARATION for tomorrow’s Knesset election, stubs of papers are placed in ballot boxes with the names of parties from which voters will choose.