Sharren Haskel Fails to Enter Knesset as Small Parties Fall Short
With over 70% of votes counted, former Deputy Minister Sharren Haskel failed to enter the Knesset after her merged faction secured just 740 votes, falling well short of the electoral threshold alongside other marginal parties.
With over 70% of the votes counted by Wednesday morning, election results indicate that former Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel, who ran with the "Israel First" party, will not enter the Knesset. Haskel merged with the Green Leaf party, but together they secured only 740 votes as of Wednesday morning.
Had the elections been held solely in the Golan Heights Druze village of Ein Qiniyye, Haskel would have secured second place behind Avigdor Lieberman. She garnered 110 votes there, accounting for one-seventh of the total local ballots, largely because the fourth spot on her list is held by the local council head.
Haskel's disappointing outcome follows her departure from New Hope and the subsequent merger aimed at forging a new political force. Meanwhile, other marginal factions also struggled to cross the electoral threshold, including Eitan Shwily's party, which received 1,456 votes—representing 0.04% of the counted ballots—alongside the Pirates party with 650 votes and Semyon Grafman's social security faction with 326 votes.
