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The extended period of political deadlock that led up to the election was the result of four inconclusive elections (April 2019, September 2019, 2020, and 2021).In April and September 2019, neither incumbent Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, nor leader of the main opposition party Blue and White, Benny Gantz, was able to muster a 61-seat governing majority, leading to fresh elections.
Elections in Israel are based on nationwide proportional representation. The electoral threshold is currently set at 3.25%, [ 1 ] with the number of seats a party receives in the Knesset being proportional to the number of votes it receives.
Legislative elections were held in Israel on 23 March 2021 to elect the 120 members of the 24th Knesset. It was the fourth Knesset election in two years, amidst the continued political deadlock following the previous three elections in April 2019, September 2019 and 2020.
[15] [16] There have also been calls for a snap election once the war is over. Minister of Labor Yoav Ben-Tzur said that an election should occur within 90 days of the end of the war, [17] although he later walked those statements back. [18] Polling suggests that 64% of Israelis believe that an election should happen as soon as the war is over ...
The 2022 Israeli legislative election was held using closed list proportional representation. Each party presented a list of candidates to the Central Elections Committee prior to the election. [ 1 ]
Indirect presidential elections were held in Israel on 2 June 2021. [1] The President of Israel is elected by members of the Knesset for a single seven-year term. Incumbent President Reuven Rivlin, [2] who had been in office since 24 July 2014, was ineligible for re-election. The presidency is a largely ceremonial position, wielding little real ...
The Knesset first convened on 14 February 1949 in Jerusalem following the 20 January elections, replacing the Provisional State Council which acted as Israel's official legislature from its date of independence on 14 May 1948 and succeeding the Assembly of Representatives that had functioned as the Jewish community's representative body during ...
The 120 seats in the Knesset are elected by closed list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency. The electoral threshold for the election is 3.25%. In most cases, this implies a minimum party size of four seats, but it is mathematically possible for a party to pass the electoral threshold and have only three seats (since 3.25% of 120 members = 3.9 members).