{"id":308958,"date":"2026-10-29T16:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=308958"},"modified":"2026-10-29T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:18:18","slug":"israeli-election-more-than-89-of-votes-counted-coalition-prospects-remain-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/308958\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli election: More than 89% of votes counted, coalition prospects remain unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>With 89.8% of ballots counted in Israel&rsquo;s parliamentary election, the bloc backing incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ahead of the opposition alliance led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, but still lacks the seats needed to form a government, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/russian\/articles\/c8x23v64xzwno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary results, Arab parties are on track to win a record number of seats in the Knesset. They could play a decisive role in coalition negotiations, but neither Netanyahu nor Eisenkot is willing to cooperate with them.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the latest figures, Netanyahu&rsquo;s bloc is projected to secure 53 seats in the Knesset, including 26 for his Likud party, while the opposition alliance is expected to win 48 seats. The two Arab parties have recorded their strongest result to date and could secure a combined 19 seats.<\/p>\n<p>The counting of all ballots is expected to continue until Friday, October 30.<\/p>\n<p>Official results are due to be announced on November 4, a week after the election.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 89.8% of ballots counted in Israel&rsquo;s parliamentary election, the bloc backing incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ahead of the opposition alliance led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, but still lacks the seats needed to form a government, the BBC reports. According to preliminary results, Arab parties are on track to win a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":308951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308959,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308958\/revisions\/308959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}