The president must decide who'll get first chance to form a new government. In the meantime, the outgoing administration is in charge, but could be partially stymied if the opposition unites
The law allows a Knesset to extend its four-year term and postpone elections, but only with a supermajority of 80 MKs and under 'special circumstances'
On October 20, 2026, a week before Israel’s elections, dozens of men were detained on suspicion of evading the draft – arrests that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “unacceptable.” The young men attend ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, religious schools, whose students were long exempt from the military service mandatory for most Israelis. A 2024 court ruling […]
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