# Israel’s Herzog accepts election results and begins government-formation talks

https://mins.news/en/item/129948

- Al Jazeera, 2026-11-05 01:53 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/5/israels-herzog-accepts-vote-results-opens-talks-on-forming-a-government?traffic_source=rss

> President Isaac Herzog accepted the certified results of Israel’s parliamentary election and began consulting party leaders on whom to ask to form the next government. Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc lost its majority, while the election commission said its investigation found no evidence of fraud that compromised the vote or changed its results.

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