According to NPR's report on the Israeli elections, Israelis voted in what the report described as their "highest numbers in decades" in a tense national election on Tuesday. The vote was held to decide whether the country would stick with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right coalition or change course.
The summary of the report was written by NPR's International Desk. It does not give a turnout figure, so the size of the increase is not stated here. It also does not say when results were expected or describe the parties and candidates in any detail. The summary is a single paragraph and is the only source of detail used in this account.
The headline refers to pivotal elections in the plural, while the summary refers to a single national election held on Tuesday. The material available does not resolve that difference, and no second outlet's account was provided for comparison. This account follows the summary's description of one national vote.
The summary does not report vote totals, results, or the makeup of any government that could follow, and this account does not supply them. Because only one source was available, the account rests entirely on what NPR's summary states about the vote's scale, its timing, and its stakes for the Netanyahu coalition.
Sources: NPR: Israelis vote in their highest numbers in decades in pivotal elections.