{
  "id": 16920866,
  "title": "Israel's pollsters and editors owe an explanation after failing voters - comment",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/israels-pollsters-and-editors-owe-an-explanation-after-failing-voters",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-28T16:04:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Jerusalem Post",
    "slug": "jerusalem-post",
    "url": "https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-913130"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Israel's polling firms and editors must explain their failures in predicting the election results, according to a recent comment. As the polling stations closed ten minutes before N12, Channel 12's news site, declared that President Isaac Herzog would ask Gadi Eisenkot to form the next government, it turned out to be incorrect. Four hours later, the initial projections were proven wrong. The channel, along with Channels 13 and the public broadcaster Kan, had all initially placed the four main opposition parties ahead of Eisenkot's camp. This led to an evening of confident talk built on numbers that were already shifting.",
  "summary": "Three major broadcasters missed Likud by five to seven seats. The disagreement among pollsters was there to report all along, and newsrooms, ours included, failed to make it the story.",
  "key_points": [
    "Polling firms and editors failed to predict election results accurately.",
    "Channel 12 incorrectly declared President Herzog would ask Eisenkot to form government.",
    "Initial projections placed opposition parties ahead of Eisenkot's camp."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}