Sha'a Mansour Massarwa, who set up Lapid-Abbas meeting, says no Arab Israeli party will work with Smotrich or Ben Gvir; Gantz calls for concerted effort to oust Netanyahu

Meeting the party's leader, Ayoub Kara asserts that unlike the Joint List, Ra'am 'doesn't deny Israel's existence'; head of Arab Balad party resigns

Joint List currently has buffer of 2,521 votes, below which it loses its 6th seat to Likud; Religious Zionism's Simcha Rothman says probe will look for 'mistakes and forgeries'

Mansour Abbas has been controversial among Arab Israelis for his willingness to work with PM Benjamin Netanyahu. But his Tuesday electoral win proves he also has support

Liberman sees jump in support in Druze areas; United Torah Judaism leads in Jerusalem; Arab community mostly supports Joint List

'Double envelope' ballots, some 10% of total, could yet determine Netanyahu's fate; officials expect final results by Friday; remaining 3% of regular votes expected soon

Likud, whose bloc drops to 59 seats, split on possibility of coalition supported by Islamist party; Abbas: 'If there is an offer, we’ll sit and talk'

Amid low turnout, party had feared election disaster; crowd cheers as rival Ra'am predicted to fail to pass election threshold, although others lament 'lost Arab votes'

Blue and White, Meretz, Religious Zionism projected to coast into Knesset, defying predictions of falling under threshold; low Arab turnout dents Joint List, could keep Ra'am out

While there are no official numbers yet, voting numbers are low across the country, with reports of empty polling places in Arab towns and cities