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Netanyahu urges right-wing voters to vote in Israel election
Published : Tuesday, 27 October, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Observer Online Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged right-wing supporters to vote in the parliamentary election, warning that left-wing voters are turning out in large numbers as early turnout reaches one of the highest levels in decades.
“Emergency!” Netanyahu wrote on X, calling on Likud supporters to go to polling stations and encourage others to vote.
“The left’s activists are storming the polling stations – and the right’s activists are indifferent,” he wrote, urging supporters to mobilise voters.
After casting his ballot at a polling station in West Jerusalem, Netanyahu alleged that attempts had been made to rig the election. He said police had arrested three people carrying bags of money in an alleged attempt to bribe voters.
Turnout reached 16.68 per cent in the first three hours of voting, according to Israel’s Central Elections Committee, marking one of the highest early turnout figures in decades.
However, Nibel Khalil, an anthropologist at Birzeit University, expressed doubts about the early figures, telling Al Jazeera that Israeli elections could always produce surprises.
Khalil warned that some Palestinian citizens of Israel might be unable to vote and raised concerns about possible attempts to manipulate the electoral process.
Discussing potential political alliances, Khalil said several scenarios remained possible, including a partnership involving Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot or Mansour Abbas to retain power.
She added that Palestinians were not expecting a new Israeli government to deliver statehood but hoped it might ease restrictions that have intensified in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
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