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Without political renewal, Israel will remain stuck - editorial (Jerusalem Post)

But if one lesson can be learned from the election results, it is that without new voices and new ideas, the country risks remaining trapped in the same cycle of political instability that produced five elections between 2019 and 2022 and repeatedly prevented Israeli leaders from establishing a stable government.

After everything Israel has been through, that would be a missed opportunity at best, and a catastrophe at worst.

The country needs political renewal – not because every new party deserves a seat, but because a democracy that cannot make room for alternatives risks becoming stagnant.

Until Israel finds a way to break that pattern, the deadlock will remain – and the country will continue to struggle to find a way forward.

Israel’s election yielded a stalemate. Which means Netanyahu won (Times of Israel)

The anti-Netanyahu parties — Jewish and Arab — secured most of the seats in the Knesset, but they do not have the means to translate that into even a minority government. The failure is staggering, and may echo long into Israel’s future

There seems to be some confusion about the result of Israel’s election, specifically as regards who won.

That’s somewhat understandable. Neither of the two main rival camps secured a Knesset majority.

But it’s also incorrect. The election, and the stalemate, leave one clear winner: Benjamin Netanyahu.

How so? Simply because he does not have to do anything in order to retain power — not to concede anything, not to compromise on anything.

And that’s because the political forces arrayed against him have no realistic means of ousting him.

Netanyahu, Eisenkot, Bennett must put Israel first and talk unity - editorial (Jerusalem Post)

President Isaac Herzog appeared very much aware of that danger when he addressed the situation on Wednesday, urging political leaders to approach the coming coalition consultations with open minds.

Israelis went to the polls on Tuesday in remarkable numbers, with turnout reaching 77.7%, the highest in more than two decades. After months of bitter campaigning, voters have had their say. Now comes the considerably more difficult task of turning those votes into a functioning government.

As the counting continued on Wednesday, neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud nor his principal challenger, Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot, had a clear path to the 61 seats required to form a government. The final results may yet alter that, but Israel is already confronting the possibility of another prolonged period of political uncertainty.

Change bloc alliance with Arabs, unity government, or new election: 3 scenarios for what comes next (Times of Israel)

With both pro- and anti-Netanyahu blocs well short of a majority after tallying of most ballots, analysts dissect the most likely ways forward, some of which would involve party leaders breaking key promises

Netanyahu survived Israel's election - but a political reckoning may only be beginning (Jerusalem Post)

Netanyahu's political survival is remarkable. But the election has also revealed a weakened bloc, the beginnings of change, and serious failures by the pollsters.

Netanyahu isn’t acting like he won the election. Here’s what that could mean (Times of Israel)

By claiming the election was ‘stolen,’ Netanyahu could be setting himself up for success in a repeat vote. But he might also recognize his days of majority government are ending...

But there’s another way to look at the results. A lot of election commentary has focused on whether parties are Zionist — generally defined as believing in and defending a Jewish state. And if you break down the results by that metric, the distribution is different.

The Jewish-led opposition parties would still have 48 seats. But in Netanyahu’s bloc, only 40 seats belong to openly Zionist parties: Likud, and the far-right Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit.

The rest of the Knesset, 32 seats, is made up of Haredi and Arab parties, all of which staunchly oppose mandating service in the Israel Defense Forces, and many of which are ambivalent on the idea of Jewish statehood. That includes the Ashkenazi Haredi United Torah Judaism, whose senior spiritual leader has expressed regret that Palestine didn’t come under Arab control in 1948.

That means only 88 of the Knesset’s 120 seats are explicitly Zionist. And most of them belong to Netanyahu’s opponents. Even if Netanyahu’s bloc were to include the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox Shas party, which claims to be moderate on the question of IDF service, it would still total only 46, slightly behind the Jewish, anti-Netanyahu camp...