Nearly 6 million people are eligible to vote in today’s Parliamentary election in Israel, in which several parties from across the political spectrum are vying for control of the Knesset. This is explained in a thorough English-language election primer written by Maayan Lubell and published by the Reuters news service, available at
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-election-parties-explainer-idUKKCN1RJ0AQ.
Polls are showing that the parties expected to win the most Knesset seats in today’s election are Likud (headed by current PM Benjamin Netanyahu, English-language website is at https://www.likud.org.il/en) and Blue and White (led by former chief of the Israel Defense Forces Benny Gantz; website, only available in Hebrew, at https://bg19.co.il). No party is expected to win an outright majority in the election, which means that a coalition government, in which multiple parties join forces to form a parliamentary majority, would have to be established.
There are several English-language news sources offering coverage and analysis of today’s election. Below is a selected list.
- Haaretz: Israel Election 2019
- Aljazeera: Israel News
- Times of Israel: Israel and the Region
- Jerusalem Post: Israel Elections
- Google News: Knesset Election, 2019
- Reuters: Stories by Maayan Lubell
- New York Times: Middle East
- Washington Post: Middle East
- BBC News: Middle East
- The Guardian: Middle East and North Africa
- Fox News: Middle East
- The Forward
Here are some pre-populated searches of Harvard’s HOLLIS library catalog for materials in the Harvard Library collections related to elections in Israel:
- HOLLIS search: Subject = “Israel — Keneset — Elections”
- HOLLIS search: Subject = “Israel — Politics and Government”
- HOLLIS search: Subject = “Elections — Israel”
- HOLLIS search: Subject = “Election Districts — Israel”
- HOLLIS search: Subject = “Election Law — Israel”
- HOLLIS search: Subject = “Political Parties — Israel”