High turnout in Israel’s election and Trump administration seeks to block alleged noncitizen votes: Morning Rundown

Benjamin Netanyahu is battling to stay in power as Israelis vote in the country’s first election since the October 7 attacks. The Trump administration faces a setback in its push to block alleged noncitizen votes in California. Plus, key takeaways from Anthropic’s IPO filing.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing one of the most significant electoral tests of his decades-long political career, as voters head to the polls in the first election since the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023.

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Netanyahu’s Likud party was neck and neck with the military’s former Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, who has emerged as his strongest rival.

For three years, Netanyahu has navigated war, crisis and global outcry over the country’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which has killed about 74,500 people since Oct. 7.

Voter turnout stood at 31.5% as of midday local time, Israel’s Central Elections Committee said, the highest at this hour in decades.

No single party has ever earned a majority in the Knesset, or parliament, in Israel’s history so it is unlikely we’ll know a winner when…

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