Prime Minister Netanyahu's reelection hopes are on hold as Israeli exit polls suggest a tight race with main rival Benny Gantz. Follow live updates.
1 hr 9 min agoBy law, the first exit polls released on election day come out at 10 p.m. local time . This will give us the first idea of where the parties stand.Ayman Odeh, the leader of Hadash-Ta’al , says that what could be a historically low turnout among Arab voters, as reported by pollsters, could mean a “Knesset without Arab representation."
Four years ago, Netanyahu also made an election day reference to Israel’s Arab voters in an attempt to get his supporters to turn out and vote. On a Facebook video, he said that “Arab voters are going to the polls in droves.”Benjamin Netanyahu Still, Netanyahu said he was convening an"emergency meeting" in Jerusalem to decide on next steps after a"dramatic update" on low turnout in Likud strongholds.
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