Israel's Central Elections Committee chief rejects delay, publishes election results

Justice Noam Sohlberg, chair of Israel's Central Elections Committee, rejected coalition requests to delay publication of official Knesset election results, stating the law requires publication on November 4. Likud and coalition parties plan to abstain from voting on the results and consider filing an appeal.

Judge Noam Solberg, chairman of the Central Elections Committee, announced the opening of an investigation into suspicions of harm to election integrity but clarified that the results remain unchanged. Alex Nahumson's column argues that although the investigation is still ongoing and the evidence has not yet been revealed, the practical verdict has already been given: the result remains. The writer uses satirical language ('spirit of prophecy') and predicts that Solberg will cancel the results of one or two negligible polling stations to prove the investigation bore fruit, but will leave the overall result intact. The column ends with an ironic call for '(temporary) peace upon Israel'.