Israel is heading for its national elections on Tuesday, and the polling for all 120 seats in the Knesset is likely to decide Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political trajectory. It’s the first ever election since the October 7 Hamas attack in 2022, the deadliest security failure in Israel’s history, followed by the wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.

The current government is a coalition of far-right and ultra-Orthodox partners, who pushed Israel in nationalist and religious directions.

Opinion polls have suggested a neck-and-neck fight between the right-wing alliance led by the country’s longest-serving prime minister and a Jewish-led opposition alliance. However, the stakes are high, and a mere defeat at the polling booths does not mean Netanyahu will have to step down. To form a government, a party needs to win 61 seats, which has never happened in the country’s 81-year history.

Instead of individual candidates, Israelis vote for party lists.…