Israel's election-day coverage moves from voting to coalition appeals
The October 27 morning broadcast precedes statements from Eisenkot and Lapid about assembling a government and avoiding another election.
Why this story? One of i24NEWS עברית's most watched videos since yesterday, with 23,436 views.
i24NEWS עברית: The Hebrew channel of i24NEWS, the Israeli news channel owned by Patrick Drahi. 119K subscribers and 256M views.
שידורי הבוקר של i24NEWS 27-10-26
Israel's election day began with voting still ahead of the coalition negotiations. The October 27 morning broadcast from Israel's Hebrew-language news channel i24NEWS עברית belongs to that earlier stage of the day, before party leaders' public appeals turned to forming a government.
The program, titled "שידורי הבוקר של i24NEWS 27-10-26" ("The i24NEWS morning news broadcast, 27-10-26"), drew about 23,000 views since yesterday.
Separate election-night clips published by the broadcaster capture the next political questions. Gadi Eisenkot said another election would be a mistake and pledged to pursue what he called a "Zionist conscription government." Yair Lapid suggested that a coalition might not be broad at the outset but could expand later.
Those statements set out intentions, not an agreement: Eisenkot emphasized avoiding a repeat election, while Lapid left open a gradual approach to widening a governing coalition.
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Where next?
- Channel
- i24NEWS עברית
- Subscribers
- 119,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 7,769,577
- Channel views, pace per day
- 925,749 (on a normal day: 1,071,905)
- Video published
- October 27, 2026
- Video views so far
- 23,436 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 59,059
The numbers
The morning broadcast received about 23,000 views since yesterday.

