Israel/Palestine

Netanyahu secured 55 recommendations – from his own Likud party, the ultra-Orthodox parties Shas and United Torah Judaism and right-wing alliance Yamina. Gantz got 54 recommendations – from his own party, from Labor-Gesher's six elected representatives and the Democratic Union's five as well as from the Arab Joint List.

While the Israeli Arab party announced that it endorses Gantz, that moved was stunted by the decision of Balad – one of the four parties that make up the alliance – not to recommend Gantz to Rivlin as the suitable candidate to form a government. The party's endorsement was rare, since it which did not back a prime ministerial candidate since the Hadash faction supported the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1992.