
The Israeli Central Election Commission reported a national turnout of 31.5% at 12pm, the highest figure recorded since the 1977 elections.
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The figure of 31.5% is the highest recorded since the 1977 elections, the year of the historic victory of the Likud.
The Israeli Central Election Commission announces that at 12 pm (11 am in Italy) the turnout at the national level stood at 31.5%, equal to 2 million voters.
It is the highest figure since the historic elections of 1977, in which the Likud won for the first time after years of Labor governments since the foundation of the state.
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