Voting has ended in Israeli missions around the world with a participation rate of 86.7%.

Tel Aviv - Ofoq News - The voting process in the twenty-sixth Knesset elections ended today, Friday, within Israeli diplomatic missions around the world, with the participation of 4,218 voters out of 4,863 registered voters entitled to vote, with a participation rate of 86.7%.

The participation rate recorded a significant increase of 17.1 percentage points compared to the twenty-fifth Knesset elections, in which the voting percentage reached 69.6%.

Voting took place in 101 electoral centers distributed among 99 Israeli diplomatic missions around the world. Voting opened at the Israeli embassy in the New Zealand capital, Wellington, due to the time difference, while the last polling centers on the west coast of the United States were closed.