00:01welcome back you're watching india today i'm sakshi patra we're straight away getting you
00:05the news from israel which is heading into crucial election with benjamin netanyahu fighting to
00:09retain power amid mounting security political and legal challenges the country's longest serving
00:15prime minister faces a formidable challenge from gadi in scott also a former chief of the israel
00:21defense forces as voters weigh security failures the war in the gaza also the cost of living and
00:27questions over the government's leadership as well u.s president donald trump has doubled down
00:32on his endorsement of netanyahu telling israelis that bb was a warrior pm also that he should be
00:40re-elected in order to finish the job against iran ahead of voting day netanyahu continues to frame
00:46himself as the leader best equipped to confront iran and its regional proxies as well he has warned that
00:53iran could attempt to disrupt the polls insisting that israel's military is prepared to respond both
00:59defensively and offensively he's also issued a blunt warning to iran do not test israel in netanyahu's
01:06campaign also has featured his association with donald trump underlining the importance of israel
01:11u.s ties under him with coalition arithmetic likely to prove decisive the big question is can
01:18itanyahu retain the power or will voters demand a change in leadership right now let me actually go
01:24across to praneo badia live from israel joining in from jerusalem hi prane graf known well first up give
01:30us an understanding of what makes this election so important uh what are the odds you know at this
01:36point in time that you are reading in right ahead of the election day tomorrow and what are the issues
01:41at hand too good afternoon sakshi right now i am here in the city of jerusalem and inside the parliament
01:50of uh of uh of israel this is called keneset and behind me you can see the election counters accounting
01:56center and let me show you these uh the preparations here first before i could answer your questions
02:01because see these this is the the map of israel all the counting center all these bar charts pie graphs
02:07uh and everything shows that uh the length and breadth of preparation done by the election committee
02:12uh you know uh similar to our election commission they have the election committee uh which is headed
02:17by a supreme court judge uh retired judge and in fact these are the preparations and you can see all
02:21these dots the length and breadth of the israel preparing for the important vote 26th keneset
02:26keneset uh election or the 26th parliamentary election of israel and uh in fact broad spread arrangements
02:32have been made for this uh election around 7.33 million voters are going to cast their vote and
02:38going to decide and there is an interesting electoral history of uh of israel sakshi that no
02:43party has ever secured uh the single largest majority in the israeli parliament and in fact
02:48all the uh the polls all the opinion polls are clearly suggesting that this is this time also this
02:53is not going to be different uh the issues which are dominating right now in fact prime minister
02:58benjamin netanyahu himself who is the longest serving prime minister of israel has become an
03:02issue in this election because the change party or the or the yashar party led by the former idf chief
03:08uh you know gadi eisenkott is also given is giving a call for the change of government uh asking for
03:14the accountability of 7th of october attack also the essential conscription who is going to serve in
03:20the army and who is going to get spared that has become a political politically sensitive issue in
03:25this election rising cost of living uh there's also one of the important issue which is dominating the
03:30discourse here but uh elaborate arrangements have been made uh in israel and uh within few hours
03:35uh the israelis will be voting and they would be voting by ballot paper in israel they don't have
03:41evms uh and in fact you know they they have an interesting arrangements actually that uh at the time
03:46when the voting is on uh and at certain centers they start counting as well so uh the the electoral
03:53outcome is expected to be out uh within the few hours of uh the count a conclusion of counting which
03:59concludes at around 10 p.m uh on 27th of october right pranay so you when you say that it
04:06is going
04:06to be a crucial one for netanyahu's political future what can we expect both if he wins and both if
04:13he
04:13loses also uh there are multiple scenarios which can be expected in this uh election asakshi uh a the
04:24coalition uh led by benjamin netanyahu gets a clear majority then there is no confusion uh if the uh
04:30opposition coalition uh led by gadi eisencott former idf chief if he wins then also there is a clarity but
04:36what if uh no party or no coalition uh able to secure the majority the number is 61 in 120
04:44member
04:44seat uh member uh you know of or the 120 seat parliament of israel you require 61 seats and so
04:52far as i told you that no party has ever secured the single largest majorities in that case the role
04:57of arab parties becomes important and analysts are predicting that there could be a possibility of a
05:03minority government or also possibility of a re-election is also not being ruled out in that
05:08case the prime minister benjamin netanyahu is served for all right thank you so much for getting us all
05:14of those updates keep an eye out on the developments we'll continue to track the israel elections with
05:19you throughout the course of the day as well with
