Samples published by the Israeli media on Tuesday evening, after the polls closed, showed that the far-right coalition led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would obtain a majority in the Knesset, thus forming a government and returning to power.
The samples showed that the right-wing party bloc led by the Likud would get 62 seats out of the 120 Knesset seats, and opinion polls had expected that this coalition would get only 60 seats.
As for the coalition led by current Prime Minister Yair Lapid, it will win 54 seats, according to the same samples.
The far-right alliance made progress, according to initial indicators, after the party of the far-right MP Itamar Ben Gvir became the third largest bloc in the Knesset after Netanyahu's Likud (30 votes) and Lapid's "There is a Future" (22 seats).
The samples for the voter's vote were issued while the vote counting began after the polls closed, with the preliminary results beginning to appear on Wednesday morning.
Four hours before the polling stations closed, the Elections Committee announced that the voter turnout had reached 62.7% as of seven in the evening, the highest since 1999.
For his part, Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that the voter turnout among settlers in the West Bank exceeded 60% and is close to 85% among the religious.
Within the Green Line, the percentage of Palestinian voters rose to 44% after the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality coalition and the Arab List for Change said it was low in the first hours of polling.
The Israeli Prime Minister and the leader of the "There is a Future" party, Yair Lapid, had supporters of his party and the parties affiliated with his camp to vote extensively.
For his part, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu made several calls for right-wing supporters to go to the polls extensively to resolve the electoral battle in favor of their camp.
These elections took place amid tight security measures inside Israel and occupied Jerusalem, and in light of a military siege imposed on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Ben Gvir pledged to form a right-wing government led by Netanyahu (Reuters)
sharp polarization
It is worth noting that this is the fifth election in Israel in less than 4 years, in light of severe polarization and political instability, and the Israeli political circles have not ruled out holding a sixth election if the government formation crisis continues.
The number of voters reached 6,788,804, while the number of ballot boxes reached 11,707.
40 lists contested these elections, but public opinion polls suggested that only 11 of them would win, and that the right-wing Likud party would lead in the results.
Recent opinion polls showed the increasing popularity of the prominent far-right politician Itamar Ben Gvir, which makes him a possible factor in deciding the selection of the next prime minister.
After voting near his home in his settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Ben Gvir pledged to form a "complete right-wing government" led by Netanyahu.
The Knesset elections coincided with the escalation of Israeli attacks on the Palestinians, amid fears of the outbreak of a third intifada, as the Israeli army imposed a comprehensive closure on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The polling process began at seven in the morning (local time) and continued until ten in the evening.