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JNS LIVE: 2026 Israel elections coverage

Who will secure the 61 seats needed to govern Israel, and what will the election mean for the country’s future?

Join JNS for four hours of live election-night coverage, featuring expert analysis, interviews, reporting from party headquarters and real-time exit poll results.

JNS CEO Alex Traiman leads a distinguished panel featuring senior contributing editor Ruthie Blum; JNS Israel managing editor Ariel Kahana; former director of Israel’s Government Press Office Daniel Seaman; and Dr. Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs. Other special guests will also be featured.

On the ground, JNS diplomatic correspondent Amelie Botbol reports from Likud headquarters, “Axis of Truth” host Emily Schrader joins from Amcha Yisrael headquarters, while JNS international correspondent Canaan Lidor brings the latest from Yashar.

From coalition politics and national security to U.S.-Israel relations, JNS delivers the analysis and reporting behind the results.

Tuesday, Oct. 27, from 8 p.m. to midnight Israel (2 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET)

LIVE exit polls at 10 p.m. Israel (4 p.m. ET).

The non-Jewish council member, who grew up on the Upper East Side, told JNS that she was raised in a “proud Zionist household.”
The country’s next government will depend on whether its political leaders can reconcile their competing commitments, or whether voters will again be asked to resolve a deadlock that negotiations could not.
“They will push legislation very hard to end the Iran war, and it’s not inconceivable that they could get a fair amount of Republican support for that,” William Galston of Brookings told JNS.
Belgrade police killed the minor, who was armed with two knives and was tied to the Islamic State, the Serbian Interior Ministry said.