Joint List leader calls for genuine Arab-Jewish partnership to oust Netanyahu

Yousef Jabareen, leader of the Joint Arab List, has called for a "genuine Arab-Jewish partnership" to remove Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to Al Arabiya, Jabareen said that "despite the significant rise in voter turnout within the Arab community, the election scene also saw a substantial increase in turnout among the Israeli public."

Meanwhile, vote counting continued in Israel's elections, with preliminary results after about 70% of ballots counted showing Netanyahu's coalition leading with 54 seats in the Knesset, according to the latest update from the Central Elections Committee on Wednesday.

The results indicated that the opposition coalition led by Gadi Eisenkot secured 47 seats, while Arab lists won 19 seats. The committee explained that a winning bloc needs 61 out of 120 Knesset seats to form a government.

The committee also announced that voter turnout reached 77.7%, the highest in over twenty years and about seven percentage points higher than the previous elections in 2022. Final results for Tuesday's legislative elections are expected in the coming days.