This time around, Israeli voters must choose not between Netanyahu and Gantz, but between restoring sanity to the political system, or remaining the hostages of Yisrael Beytenu and the Joint Arab List.

Everything is possible: politicians switching sides, mutinies or dismissals inside either camp, a minority government, a unity government, or fourth elections. So it’s not just the voters, it’s also the whims of the leaders that will determine how this absurd show ends.

Exit polls to be released at around 10 p.m. (3 p.m. EST) Israel time on Monday, with final results likely early Tuesday morning.

It's much clearer now that our choice is between two types of regimes. On the one hand, a regime based on a layer of jurists, clerks and masters, determined to restore their rule via their puppet party – versus a vibrant Israeli democracy that authentically expresses the will of the people.

Israeli households across the country had 496,538 canines in 2019, with the majority – 251,291 – males, new registry reveals.