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- Turnout has reached the highest level in 50 years, with Al Jazeera reporting continued voting and India Today World calling it a 1973-era high.
- Benjamin Netanyahu is the only candidate named in the AP excerpt, and voters will decide whether he receives yet another term as prime minister.
- Israel’s election is described as a close, high-stakes test by India Today World, while Axios reports that each side warns it could bring ruin and Crisis Group asks whether it will change Israel.
- Israel now faces the question of whether it turns the page more than three years after Hamas-led attacks triggered the war in Gaza.
Why it matters: The 50-year turnout high places Netanyahu’s another-term bid before an unusually engaged electorate; with the contest described as close, his premiership and Israel’s direction after more than three years of war in Gaza are being settled simultaneously in one vote.
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