Ballot boxes are set up at a polling station ahead of voting in Israel's general election in Haifa, Israel. (Photo: AP)

Israel elections 2026 live: Israelis vote today in their first national election since the October 7 attacks and the war in Gaza that followed. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 77, is seeking another term in a deeply divided country. Friday polls put his far-right coalition almost level with the opposition bloc led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, and about half a million people will vote for the first time. Most polls suggest Netanyahu’s coalition will lose its majority in the 120-seat Knesset, but the opposition may also fall short of the 61 seats needed to form a government. For Netanyahu, the stakes are personal as well as political.…