Netanyahu warns of high turnout in Israeli election: 'Emergency hour'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of high voter turnout in “the Left’s strongholds” in the most important election of his career.

Polls opened in the Israeli parliamentary elections on Tuesday, the first election since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas surprise attack that plunged the region into war. The election has turned into a referendum on the longtime Israeli leader, pitting his right-wing Likud-led coalition against the rest of Israel’s political scene.