2022 Israeli legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Israel to elect the members of the 25th Knesset on 1 November 2022
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On Thursday 3 November Lapid conceded to Netanyahu, and congratulated him, wishing him luck "for the sake of the Israeli people".
Note that the entire country constitutes a single electoral constituency. In Israel's proportional representation system, candidates represent national parties and not electoral districts or local constituencies. All registered Israeli citizens 18 years and over are entitled to vote. The 120 Knesset seats are then assigned in proportion to each party's percentage of the total national vote with the minimum required threshold for a party to be represented in the Knesset currently 3.25% of the total votes cast. In the 2022 election, with 4,764,742 valid votes, this represented a minimum of 154,854 votes.
Likud Party background from study.com
From its victory in the 1948 war and for several decades afterward, Israel was governed by the left-wing Labor Party. However, as time went on, the Labor Party weakened its grip on Israeli politics. During the Six-Day War (which was fought in 1967), Israel was governed by a national unity government in which all the major parties were included in government. This included the Freedom-Liberals Bloc (Gahal), which was led by Menachem Begin. Begin had been a paramilitary leader during the 1940s, afterward becoming one of the leading figures of right-wing politics in the country.
Formation of Likud
In 1973, war again erupted between Israel and its neighbors. While the 1967 war had been a success, the 1973's war was much more of a mixed bag with many Israeli voters charging Prime Minister Golda Meir of the Labor Party with unpreparedness. That year, Begin joined his Gahal party with several other small conservative and right-wing political parties, calling the coalition Likud ("Unity"). See Job 41:17
In the December 1973 elections, Likud gained an additional seven seats and the Labor Party and its coalition lost five. While this was not enough for Likud to take power, it did drive Golda Meir out of leadership. The next to serve as Prime Minister was Yitzhak Rabin, a military man who led Israel to victory in 1967. Rabin governed as Labor Prime Minister until 1977 when political tensions and corruption scandals drove the Labor Party and its allies to lose nineteen seats in the Knesset. Likud gained four, winning parliament as the largest party in the country, and consigning Labor to opposition for the first time since independence.
Begin resigned from ill health in 1983 and was replaced by Yitzhak Shamir, also a paramilitary leader during the 1940s. After Shamir lost the 1992 election, Benjamin Netanyahu became leader and subsequently won the 1996 election.
Click here for FAQ from the 2015 general election published by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This election
The bill dissolving the Knesset passed its first reading on 28 June 2022 and its third reading on 30 June
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Israel Election 2021
2021 Israeli legislative election
According to the coalition agreement signed between Likud and Blue and White in 2020, elections were to be held 36 months after the swearing-in of the 35th government, making 23 May 2023 the next election date. However, Israeli law stipulated that if the 2020 state budget had not passed by 23 December 2020, the Knesset would need to be dissolved and elections would need to be held by 23 March 2021.
On 2 December 2020, the Knesset passed the preliminary reading of a bill to dissolve the current government by a vote of 61–54. On 21 December 2020, the Knesset failed to pass a bill to avoid this dispersal by a vote of 47-49. Since the Knesset had failed to approve the 2020 state budget by the required deadline, at midnight IST on 23 December 2020, the government coalition collapsed and the 23rd Knesset was officially dissolved. In accordance with the law that the election had to be held within 90 days after the dissolution of the Knesset, the date for elections to the 24th Knesset was automatically set for 23 March 2021.
Click here for announcement of final results in Middle East News on Monday 14th June 2021
This Israeli legislative election
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