Posted on 04/09/2019 9:03:58 AM PDT by C19fan
Israelis cast their votes on Tuesday in a hotly-contested election, pitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud against Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan.
With exit polls expected shortly, parties across the political spectrum called on their supporters to vote, some out of fear that they will fail to cross the electoral threshold, others merely seeking to instill a sense of emergency among supporters.
Turnout has been historically lower in the Arab sector, and according to pollsters, Tuesday's election will see particularly low numbers. Netanyahu's Likud party provided activists with 1,200 hidden cameras "to monitor" Arab polling stations – a move that prompted Israel's Central Election Committee to file a police complaint.
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Netanyahu should be re-elected. Depends on how his coalition partners perform.
No party is expected to attain 40 seats.
Israel has a wall, we don’t.
An Israeli political party provides CAMERAS to monitor minority polling places:
Why can’t WE..?
No wonder I was hearing about allegations against Netanyahu. It was election season noise.
As a FYI, polls close in Israel at 10 pm local time or 3 pm EDT.
Thanks for the heads up.
GO BIBI!!!
Liz Claman of Fox Business is reporting that the Jerusalem Post is saying that Benny Gantz has won. Don’t know the basis of that statement since the polls have just closed.
JP idiots had to retract it. In reality, too close to call. Reminds me of the 2015 election.
Raw vote not in yet.
Won in the sense that his new party might win the most seats but no conclusive result in terms of forming a ruling bloc.
We’ll need to wait for the raw vote.
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