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Ballot boxes arrive as Israel's early count puts Likud ahead

Brief election-night footage shows workers unloading voting materials, while the accompanying update records a partial result, not a final verdict.

Channel: ynet Hebrew channel ·

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תוצאות האמת ממשיכות לזרום: כחמישית מהקולות נספרו, הליכוד מוביל עם 21.4%

A worker in a red shirt lifts blue ballot boxes out of a van and stacks them inside a metal storage cage. Colleagues help unload the remaining boxes. There is no clear spoken commentary, only background noise as the work continues.

The footage, credited to Amir Ettinger and published by Israel's news outlet ynet, captures the practical work behind an unresolved election. Its on-screen update says about a fifth of votes have been counted, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party leading on 21.4 percent.

That is an early snapshot. The accompanying report distinguishes the partial count from television exit polls, which put Likud first but gave neither political bloc a governing majority. It also reports gains for Arab parties and anticipates difficult coalition negotiations.

A later broadcast on the same channel moves the count beyond a third of ballots and reports an interim advantage for Netanyahu's bloc. Neither update presents a completed result: the boxes arriving in this clip belong to a count still underway.

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