However, as part of his platform, he has vowed to “fix” the controversial Jewish nation-state law, which defined Israel as the exclusive homeland of the Jewish people. Netanyahu will have to beat Gantz’s Blue and White Party to become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. Copy link. Benny Gantz, left, and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on April 9, 2019. Here’s what you need to know about Israel’s elections: If re-elected on April 9, Netanyahu could become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and the first sitting prime minister to be indicted on corruption charges. WATCH: (April 2019) Netanyahu’s main opponent concedes race in Israel election. 10 April 2019. Related Topics. 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JUST WATCHED Breaking down the voting in Israel's election… ", They added: "These elections have a clear winner and a clear loser," saying, "the president can see the picture and should call on the winner to form the next government. Turnout in the past three elections has crept up from 67.9% in April 2019 to 71% in March 2020. As security always takes centre stage in Israeli politics, Benny Gantz, former chief of staff of the Israeli army, is Netanyahu’s biggest challenger. He served as chief of staff during two military assaults on the besieged Gaza Strip in 2012 and 2014. A party must secure at least 61 out of a total 120 Knesset seats in order to form a government. Recent polls suggest Palestinian-Israeli voter turnout could be lower than the last elections. To stand a better chance of passing this threshold, many parties form coalitions. Here’s what happened today. Are the electoral laws and framework fair, and are they implemented impartially by the relevant election management bodies? Already in the weeks leading up to and following Israel’s April 2019 election, issues of voter integrity were being heavily pushed by right-wing parties and groups. If Gantz wins the election, Lapid is expected to take over as prime minister after Gantz's first two-and-a-half years are up, under an agreement between party leaders. By Oren Liebermann and Andrew Carey, CNN. Throughout the campaign, Netanyahu has underlined those diplomatic coups. By AMY SPIRO . Kamala Harris: Biden "prepared to sign" gun control legislation, Live Updates: Motive still unclear in Boulder mass shooting, Lawmaker who lost son in Aurora shooting on grief, gun laws, Massive cargo ship turns sideways, totally blocks Suez Canal, Zoom's profits in 2020? About sharing. Benny Gantz, leader of the Israeli Blue and White Party speaks to supporters on election night in Tel Aviv, Israel, 10 April 2019. By F. Brinley Bruton and Paul Goldman. The more votes a party gets, the more seats it obtains in the Knesset as the government is based on a nationwide proportional representation system. Copyright © 2021 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. During his tenure, US President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and recognised Israel’s claim on the occupied Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967, which may boost his popularity at the polls. Its tax bill? If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Fourteen main parties are competing for 120 seats in the 21st Knesset (parliament). Official results are expected to come in overnight for the race, which had been expected to be one of the country's tightest elections in years. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. CBS News asked Benny Gantz about that relationship with Mr. Trump and America. Doane said that while there are 41 parties on the ballot, there's only one real decision: "yes" or "no" to Netanyahu who is facing corruption allegations and stiff competition. Palestinians lament ‘clear discrimination’ as Israel’s minority, Israel election 2019: Palestinian-Israelis to boycott vote, Pope orders pay cut for cardinals, clerics to save other jobs, Equal Pay Day: Biden and Rapinoe push to close gender pay gap, Pope taps Chilean sex abuse whistle-blower for Vatican panel, Qatar reimposes coronavirus-related restrictions, Massive container ship Ever Given blocks Suez Canal: Live, Five things to know about the Suez Canal gridlock, Suez Canal blocked after massive container ship runs aground, Colorado suspect bought gun six days before shooting, Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties & Human Rights. April 9, 2019; We’ve ended this live briefing for the night. Israel has seen particularly high turn-out rates in the past, with 71.8 percent of eligible voters casting their ballots in the 2015 election. "Netanyahu had eight years with Obama -- he survived Obama -- and then he won the lottery," veteran Israeli journalist and TV 13 political analyst Barak Ravid told Doane. 0:35 Netanyahu’s main opponent concedes race in Israel election. Polls close in Israel's tight election as Netanyahu seeks to hold on to power Sept. 17, 2019 01:10 Sept. 17, 2019, 7:02 PM UTC / Updated Sept. 18, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC The Associated Press contributed to this report. California Privacy/Information We Collect. Your guide to Israel's elections. Call For Elections. Early elections were scheduled for April 2019. Based on the Israel National Election Study (INES), which includes 1,347 … What to watch: Abbas, whose party is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, has now become a major player. 20190409 091559 Polling station in Israel.jpg 2,592 × 4,608; 2.97 MB. Elections advanced to April 1 Purim Roast: In recent years, the committee has examined – and rejected – various options for reforming the voting system to strengthen Israeli democracy. There has been a significant story from the Israeli elections – the nation's longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, faces an uncertain future. The channels also gave different breakdowns for possible coalitions, with two stations giving Netanyahu's right-wing bloc a slight parliamentary majority while Channel 12 had them tied at 60 seats apiece. A corruption investigation involving one case of bribery and two cases of fraud and breach of trust culminated in February 2019 when Israel’s attorney general announced that he intends to indict Netanyahu. If he succeeds, he will be on track to become Israel's longest-serving leader. … ", Gantz and Lapid also declared: "We won! The two major parties, Blue and White and Likud, received an equal number of 35 seats. Rivlin then assigns the job of forming a coalition to the party leader he thinks has the best chance of doing so. A party has to secure a majority of 61 seats out of 120 in order to form a government and choose a leader to become prime minister. As was the case with the similar stalemates produced by elections in April and September 2019 and March 2020, that leaves Netanyahu still in power as the head of what now appears to be a seemingly and paradoxically permanent yet temporary caretaker government that will remain in place until some sort of government can be formed. "It shows the world that we have like a true democracy and that we can make a change here," voter Guy Ginton told CBS News, noting that it was a right, "a lot of the Middle East doesn't have.". Gantz boasts military credentials that appeal to much of the Israeli public. The Likud received a mandate from the president to attempt to form a government, but Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud party failed to arrange a majority coalition of 61 seats. Israeli election: Netanyahu poised to secure record 5th term April 10, 2019 00:30. Despite the charges, most younger Israelis prefer Netanyahu for prime minister over rival Benny Gantz, according to a pre-election poll by the Israel Democracy Institute. APRIL 8, 2019 … According to polls, it’s a tight race against his main rival Benny Gantz, a former army chief who leads the centrist Blue and White party, a party merged in alliance with former finance minister and TV personality Yair Lapid. But voter fatigue in this fourth election cycle is high, and many voters are reported to still be undecided in the days before polls open. About 5.88 million eligible voters are set to vote in the Israeli elections on April 9 to elect a party that will lead the next Israeli government. By Oren Liebermann and Andrew Carey, CNN. Netanyahu currently leads the most right-wing government in Israeli history and also serves as defence minister. April 2019 Israeli legislative election; September 2019 Israeli legislative election; This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title 2019 Israeli legislative election. Continued deadlock leading to the fifth election since April 2019 in August or September appears to be the most likely scenario. Voters, including the candidates themselves, cast ballots to determine the future of Israel, where the electorate is increasingly conservative, hawkish and religious, CBS News' Seth Doane reported. Here are the full results. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. First published on April 9, 2019 / 4:00 PM. A3 1.00-4.00 pts 0-4 pts. Israeli … Benny Gantz, head of the Blue and White Political alliance (Kahol Lavan), delivers a speech following the vote in the Israeli parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel’s incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud party, is seeking a fifth term in office. In a bid to win right-wing voters, Gantz’s controversial campaign videos boast of killing Palestinians and sending Gaza “back to Stone Age” referencing to the air attacks the army launched in 2014. Netanyahu would remain prime minister in the interim period. © 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. He said he believed the relationships between countries were stronger than those between individual leaders. The 2019–2021 Israeli political crisis began after the elections of April 2019 left no party able to form a government. The Israeli public has had their say! The centrist Blue and White alliance of Gantz was projected to win 36 or 37 seats, with Netanyahu's Likud party taking 33 to 36, BBC News reports. About 5.88 million eligible voters are set to vote in the Israeli elections on April 9 to elect a party that will lead the next Israeli government. April 9, 2019, 7:55 PM UTC / Updated April 10, 2019, 5:16 PM UTC. In April 2020, united Arab parties performed even better, emerging, for the first time in Israel’s history, as the country’s third-largest political bloc after Likud and Kahol Lavan. The election is being seen as a referendum on Netanyahu, who is fighting to win his fifth term in office. Long neglected, residents in the last remaining Palestinian town on Israel’s coast see little hope in upcoming polls. But two exit polls predicted that right-wing parties allied to Netanyahu were more likely to be able to form a governing coalition. Updated 0843 GMT (1643 HKT) April 10, 2019 . close. The three previous votes, beginning in April 2019, saw Netanyahu and his Likud party fail to secure a decisive mandate to assemble a stable governing coalition in the Knesset, or Israel’s parliament. Once the results are in, all parties that pass the threshold then submit their choice of candidate for prime minister to President Reuven Rivlin. Benny Gantz, left, and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on April 9, 2019. 20190409 090828 Election posters in Israel 2019.jpg 4,608 × 2,592; 4.71 MB. Media in category "Israeli legislative election, April 2019" The following 34 files are in this category, out of 34 total. During elections, parties must pass an electoral threshold of 3.25 percent to gain a Knesset seat. Channels 12 and Kan TV gave the Blue and White party, headed by Gantz, a narrow lead over the Likud, while Channel 10 TV showed them in a tie in Tuesday's vote. There is no other option!". MaBaNews | Israel elections 2021: Haaretz reveals how Benjamin and Yair Netanyahu, Likud officials and their media proxies have been using the Trump (and QAnon) playbook to cast doubt over election results since April 2019 - Haaretz News. The Knesset was dissolved shortly thereafter. Coalition squabbling brings Israel to brink of fourth election since April 2019 A new round of balloting would only deepen the political paralysis that's hamstrung policymaking. Voters will be casting their ballots for a party, not a candidate. Shamir and I have also begun analysing voter patterns in the April 2019 Israeli election. Netanyahu announced Tuesday: "A right-wing bloc led by the Likud party won a clear victory. ROUND FIVE? The weird, wacky and wondrous Israeli election ads Who takes home the awards for the best campaign commercials of this election? Updated on: April 9, 2019 / 7:35 PM Along with two other former Israeli army chiefs of staff, he quickly formed the Centrist Blue and White party in February 2019 – in alliance Lapid – in a bid to unseat Netanyahu. But Netanyahu dismissed the allegations, calling it a “witch-hunt” concocted by his opponents. 5. Last edited on 19 September 2019, at 19:33. He has campaigned heavily on his closeness to President Trump. Once praised by Netanyahu as an “excellent officer” to whom Israelis owed gratitude, the prime minister has now branded his competition as a “weak leftist”. / CBS/AP, Both Prime Minister Netanyahu and the leaders of the rival Blue and White party, former military chief Benny Gantz and centrist politician Yair Lapid, have declared victory in Israel's elections as murky exit-poll predictions rolled in. Yair Lapid makes a statement to the press after casting his vote in a school during the Israeli general elections in the Ramat Aviv area of Tel Aviv, Israel, April 9, 2019. Israeli exit polls, however, indicated Likud and the rival Blue and White party are locked in a race that is too close to call, The Associated Press reported. "Trump is basically giving him everything he wants.". Some $670 million. On December 24, 2018, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for early Knesset elections, which were scheduled to take place on April 9, 2019. Israel elections 2019; media caption Netanyahu hails his party's election results. 20190409 091600 Polling station in Israel (cropped).jpg 2,592 × 1,850; 1.35 MB. Over the past decade, he’s become known as Mr Security, casting himself as the one who can best keep Israel safe in the “tough neighbourhood” of the Middle East. , Gantz and Lapid also declared: `` We won become Israel Prime... 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