• 

  42%

  +0.1%

  Certification Proceeds Normally

  The election chief’s refusal to delay certification holds, and the official results are transmitted on schedule. With Netanyahu’s bloc stuck at 53 seats, President Isaac Herzog is most likely to invite Gadi Eisenkot or another anti-Netanyahu figure to attempt forming a government.

  Finance +0.1%

• 

  23%

  −0.2%

  Court Fight Intensifies

  Likud escalates from demanding an administrative delay to pursuing judicial relief. The most likely outcome remains a court refusal to intervene, but an injunction or partial review would extend uncertainty over the final distribution of seats.

  Finance −0.1% · Industrials +0.1%

• 

  20%

  0.0%

  Coalition Deadlock Persists

  Even with certified results, no bloc quickly forms a majority. Netanyahu lacks 61 seats, while Eisenkot or Lapid must bridge deep ideological gaps across secular, nationalist and Arab-backed factions.

• 

  10%

  −0.4%

  Security Crisis Overlaps

  The certification fight spills into street politics or overlaps with renewed Gaza or northern-front security incidents. This is less likely than a legal-political resolution, but Israel’s post-Oct 7 environment makes domestic tension and security escalation mutually reinforcing risks.

  Finance −0.5% · Consumer Services −0.5% · Industrials +0.1%

• 

  5%

  +0.3%

  Unexpected Accommodation

  Political actors step back from confrontation more quickly than expected. Either Netanyahu accepts the certified results and leads Likud into opposition, or Likud and centrist parties negotiate a unity arrangement that ends the procedural dispute.

  Finance +0.5% · Industrials +0.1%

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