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Surprisingly large Arab turnout boosts Joint List in huge rebuff to Bibi

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Published: 18 September 2019

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Exit polls show the Joint List winning up to 13 seats, which leaders see as the chance to get rid of a prime minster so hostile to them

Arab leaders herald high turnout as victory over Netanyahu (Haaretz)
Exit polls show the Joint List winning up to 13 seats in the Knesset, which leaders see as a chance to 'send that inciter Netanyahu home'

Volunteers drive Bedouin women to polls after NGO blocked from providing transportation (Haaretz)
Activists from right-wing group document volunteers’ work in unrecognized villages, accuse ‘extreme leftists’ of ‘physical violence’ against them

New exit poll shows 15 seats for the Joint List (Jerusalem Post)
According to the poll, centre-Right bloc won a total of 53 seats and the centre-Left bloc a total of 59.

Photo: Leaders of the Joint List celebrate their success in the polls, Nazareth, September 17 (Gil Eliahu)
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