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Israel’s election commission certifies results and rejects Netanyahu’s fraud claims

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The Guardian, Al Jazeera English and The Boston Globe, which carries an Associated Press report, say Israel’s Central Elections Committee certified the final results of the 27 October vote on Wednesday. The committee said a review of 9,069 polling stations found no irregularities that compromised the integrity of the election or changed its results. The outcome stripped Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist bloc of its parliamentary majority. Netanyahu and his supporters had claimed that Arab-led parties ‘stolen’ the election, possibly with foreign help; the AP report calls those claims unsubstantiated. Gadi Eisenkot, his main challenger, warned that Netanyahu had launched a “pogrom against democracy”. Separately, the attorney general blocked a Shin Bet demand to interrogate politicians from Palestinian-led parties, saying no evidence justified it. President Isaac Herzog has begun talks on the next government.

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Israel’s Central Elections Committee certified the final results of the 27 October vote.
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The Boston Globe
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The Guardian, Al Jazeera English
The committee said its review of 9,069 polling stations found no irregularities that changed the results.
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The Boston Globe
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Al Jazeera English
The results stripped Netanyahu’s coalition of its parliamentary majority.
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The Boston Globe
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The Guardian
Netanyahu has claimed mass fraud, which the elections committee rejected.
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The Boston Globe
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The Guardian
The attorney general blocked a Shin Bet demand to interrogate politicians from Palestinian-led parties, saying no evidence justified it.
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The Shin Bet investigation into alleged foreign interference is ongoing, according to a spokesperson for the elections committee.
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Did fraud or foreign interference affect the results of the 27 October vote?
Netanyahu and his supporters allege mass fraud and possible foreign assistance; the elections committee found no irregularities that compromised the election or changed its results.

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All three outlets report that Israel’s election commission certified the 27 October results and found no fraud. Only the left side is present here, and its coverage centres on the rejection of Netanyahu’s fraud claims and the political fallout.

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Headlines centre the election commission rejecting Netanyahu’s fraud claims and confirming the results; the Boston Globe headline is an AP report, so part of this side’s coverage is one wire story.
Israel’s election commission rejects Netanyahu claims of voting fraud
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stolenMore neutral: won more seats
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…his supporters have repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims that Arab-led parties had “stolen” the election, possibly with foreign assistance.
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pogrom against democracyMore neutral: attempt to undermine democracy
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His main challenger, Gadi Eisenkot, warned that Netanyahu had launched a “pogrom against democracy”, attempting to hold on to power by discrediting valid votes and weaponising…
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Commission rejects fraud claims
Netanyahu’s bid to discredit the vote
Attorney general’s block on Shin Bet interrogations

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The GuardianLeft
Israel’s election commission rejects Netanyahu claims of voting fraud
Move comes after attorney general blocked Shin Bet call to interrogate politicians from Palestinian-led parties Israel’s election commission on Wednesday confirmed the final results of the 27 October vote that stripped Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition of their governing …
4 hr agoRead at The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Al Jazeera EnglishLeft
Israel vote results confirmed as election commission rejects fraud claims
Netanyahu’s allies refused to back the result, as President Herzog began talks on who should form the next government
5 hr agoRead at Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
The Boston GlobeFar LeftAssociated Press report
Israel’s election commission says no fraud found in last week’s vote
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s election commission said Wednesday it has found no fraud in last week’s vote, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to discredit the results. …
9 hr agoRead at The Boston Globe (opens in a new tab)

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The Boston Globe, Nov 4, 2:11 AM EST
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The Boston GlobeFar LeftNov 4, 2:11 AM EST
Al Jazeera EnglishLeftNov 4, 5:37 AM EST
The GuardianLeftNov 4, 7:19 AM EST

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Israel’s election commission certifies results and rejects Netanyahu’s fraud claims

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Israel’s election commission rejects Netanyahu claims of voting fraud

Israel vote results confirmed as election commission rejects fraud claims

Israel’s election commission says no fraud found in last week’s vote

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