Until the last ballot: the sleepless nights and greatest upheavals of Israeli politics

Three days before the elections, i24NEWS reviews the most dramatic nights in the history of Israeli politics: Begin's victory in 1977, the tiny gap between Peres and Netanyahu in 1996, and the video that changed the picture in 2015. The article emphasizes the uncertainty until the last ballot.

Three days before the Knesset elections, i24NEWS publishes a retrospective article on the most dramatic nights in the history of Israeli politics. The article reviews three key election events: election night 1977, when Menachem Begin ended thirty years of Mapai and Alignment rule; the 1996 elections, half a year after Rabin's assassination, in which Benjamin Netanyahu defeated Shimon Peres by a margin of only 30,000 votes, following the Kafr Qana disaster and a wave of attacks; and the 2015 elections, where a video on election day erased Yitzhak Herzog's lead over Netanyahu. The article highlights the tension and uncertainty typical of election nights in Israel, and notes that polls and exit polls do not always predict the final result.