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Israeli Foreign Minister Dismisses Early Election Polls

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar dismissed exit poll results from the Knesset elections on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, calling early celebrations by left-wing parties premature and ridiculous.

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Israeli Foreign Minister Dismisses Early Election Polls
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What happened

  1. 01Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar dismissed exit poll results from the Knesset elections on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
  2. 02Sa'ar called early celebrations by left-wing parties premature and described commentators' predictions as biased and ridiculous.
  3. 03The Foreign Minister asserted that the Likud party remains the largest party in Israel.
  4. 04All published exit poll forecasts placed the Likud party in first place among the parties.
  5. 05Initial exit polls showed significant discrepancies in the projected distribution of mandates between political blocs.
  6. 06The final election results will be announced after the Central Election Commission completes its vote count.

Sa'ar asserted that the Likud party is clearly the largest party in Israel, a projection supported by all published forecasts despite significant discrepancies in the distribution of mandates between political blocs. He dismissed the predictions of commentators as biased, suggesting that the final outcome will differ from the initial projections.

The final election results will be announced after the Central Election Commission completes its count of all the votes.

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