Israel’s Central Elections Committee reported that 31.5% of eligible voters had cast ballots by noon local time Tuesday, compared with 28.4% at the same hour in 2022. That is more than 2.3 million voters. Most polling stations are scheduled to close at 10 p.m. Israel time.

Photo: Ballot slips at an Israeli polling station, Rakoon / Wikimedia Commons, CC0. File photo from the April 2019 Knesset election.