People of Israel

Reservists-Economic Party await double envelopes as Hendel blames media for low support

With 85.6% of the vote counted, Hendel’s Reservists-Economic Party has received roughly 2.6% of the general vote, leaving them about 100,000 votes shy of the 3.25% threshold.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, ASHER SMITH
Economic Party leader Yaron Zelekha and Reservists party leader Yoaz Hendel hold a press conference announcing their joint run in the election, in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2026
(L-R) Yoaz Hendel, Ofer Winter, and Moti Leitner

People of Israel, Reservists-Economic, Haredi Public fall short of threshold in Israeli election

The 3.25% threshold is the minimum percentage of the national vote a party needs to win to be allocated any seats in the next Knesset.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, AVI SOLOMON
Yisrael Beytenu petitions Elections Committee over Shas distribution of kippot at polling station, October 27, 2026.

Parties file complaints over defaced, vandalized, missing ballots, alleged voter tracking

Earlier, the Central Elections Committee declared that claims circulating regarding Likud representatives in polling booths across the country illegally tracking voters using an app were false.

|BySHIR PERETS
Rabbi Eli Sadan.

Winter’s rabbi backs People of Israel despite Netanyahu's pressure to withdraw from election

“I believe that only if Ofer Winter passes the electoral threshold will Bibi [Netanyahu] have a full right-wing government,” he added. “That is what I hope will happen.”

|ByKESHET NEEV

Arab Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad joins Winter's People of Israel, aims to be hasbara minister

Haddad argued that public diplomacy is inseparable from Israel's national security, saying he aimed to be Israel’s next public diplomacy minister and the first Arab member of the security cabinet.

AUGUST 25, 2026BySHIR PERETS
Arab Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad joins the Amcha Yisrael Party on August 25, 2026.