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(MENAFN) Israeli police detained a man carrying a large knife on Tuesday after he approached opposition leader Yair Golan during an election campaign event in Tel Aviv, in what was suspected to be an attempted stabbing, according to reports.

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(MENAFN) Polls closed across Israel on Tuesday night in the country’s parliamentary election, with voter turnout climbing to nearly 75%, election authorities and domestic media said.

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(MENAFN) Neither side has a path to power yet. With 72.4% of ballots counted in Israel’s parliamentary election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc is projected to take 54 seats in the 120-member Knesset, seven short of the 61 needed to...

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(MENAFN) Israel’s two main election blocs are locked in a dead heat, according to revised exit polls released early Wednesday, and neither has a clear path to power.

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(MENAFN) Voter participation in Israel’s parliamentary elections reached 77.7% on Tuesday, the highest level since 1999, the Central Elections Committee said, while exit polls pointed to historic gains for Arab parties.

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(MENAFN) Israeli forces continued their military operations in Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, for a sixth consecutive day on Wednesday, conducting raids and imposing tighter restrictions across the city, according to local sources....