2021 Election

This is the time to effect change. Whatever your political beliefs may be – you have the power to shape the nature of the country in which you want to live.

Making their election-day debut, "vote and go" stations will cater to people with the coronavirus and in isolation. They will be dispersed in 500 tent facilities across the country.

Israel’s fourth elections in two years may come across as a referendum on Netanyahu, but it is the COVID-19 vaccination campaign that will be the tiebreaker. In other words – these elections are crucial. 

Public opinion polls forecast a tight race between those who support Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving premier, and those who want "anyone but Bibi."

Some 20,000 police officers will be deployed nationwide to ensure public order on Election Day. Senior political officials expressed concern that voter fatigue will see voting figures plummet.

It is important to be aware of Arab leaders' positions on Israeli policies, especially when contrary positions are falsely attributed to them, but at the end of the day, the decision on Israel's political future is best left to Israeli voters.

Israeli media projects a Likud a strong showing as PM Netanyahu's party is likely to win 31-33 seats. Yesh Atid secures 16-18 mandates, while Yamina, with 7-8 seats is likely to decide the fate of the elections. New Hope crashes to a potential six seats. Results put Netanyahu within reach of a stable coalition.

If nothing else, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid has defeated the odds by cracking the brutal Israeli political system.

Likud's leader has implemented a highly successful diplomatic offensive to develop and deepen Israel’s bilateral ties with dozens of nations worldwide on the basis of shared economic and strategic interests.

"Naftali Bennett is incapable of saying he will join us in a right-wing government. A government with Lapid, Sa'ar and Bennett will be unstable and quickly fall apart, and we'll go back to elections," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Israel Hayom's Jacob Bardugo.