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Israel Election Tests Netanyahu's Hold on Power

Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, compared Donald Trump's endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel's election to his grandmother's chicken soup: 'it sometimes didn't help, but it couldn't hurt.' Miller said that Netanyahu and his opposition challenger Gadi Eisenkot hold differing views on the war with Iran and settler violence, but are close…

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Arab voter turnout surges past 2022 figures as haredi strongholds lag behind

In Umm al-Fahm, turnout reached 56.1% by 6 p.m., compared with a final turnout of 51.33% in 2022, an increase of 4.77 percentage points, with several hours of voting still remaining.

  • Arab voter turnout in Umm al-Fahm surged to 56.1%, up from 51.33% in 2022
  • Rahat recorded a 12.66 percentage point increase in turnout to 72.2% in 2022
  • Haredi strongholds like Bnei Brak and Modi in Illit lagged behind 2022 turnout levels

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