Israel’s Central Elections Committee finishes counting double-envelope ballots

The double-envelope count is a procedural footnote with political weight: it can nudge the final seat tally, and in a fragmented Knesset even a marginal shift can change which blocs command a governing majority. The voters in this batch — soldiers, diplomats and others abroad — are a narrow but sometimes distinctive slice of the electorate. The open question is whether the completed count alters the seat distribution enough to change coalition arithmetic, or merely confirms the picture already drawn from regular polling stations.