New political alliances, a contentious A.I. video and accusations about security failures all featured in the run-up to Tuesday’s election, widely seen as one of the most consequential in Israeli history.
Naftali Bennett, left, and Yair Lapid announced in April that they would join forces in the hope of ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But polls have suggested that their new party is likely to finish third.
A banner for the Likud party and its leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with the slogan, “The Right or Palestine.” Other candidates in the elections are to the left of it.
Mansour Abbas, a dentist-turned-lawmaker, helped oust Benjamin Netanyahu once before. Now, he and a Jewish ex-police commander have teamed up to try to do it again.
The Saudi authorities said they were fending off drone and missile attacks after a weekend of confrontation with the Houthi militia in Yemen, whose patrons Iran offered to mediate.
The Saudi authorities said they were fending off drone and missile attacks after a weekend of confrontation with the Houthi militia in Yemen, whose patrons Iran offered to mediate.
The aging Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, pushed off the planned vote until late 2027. Palestinians haven’t had major elections for about two decades.
Hussein al-Sheikh, deputy to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah, West Bank, in February. He was said to have sent the letters to European officials notifying them of the postponement.
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