the country heads to the polls again a 4th time in just 2 years our middle east correspondent paula slayer can tell us more but to me because we can't you know nothing about me having to do it and i mean i think that the people that are not made to make it a particular the. town. i. mean in the long they believe it came down and made the. film being told again in the beginning of. most of our neighbors maybe the minute. they make. love to him and on to them and they make. lockdown a lot of people start down the election and he's on holding that comment they make they make that next at the top may mean the polling station that will make him a policeman both. sides had been streaming the package out of the pandemic well and that he would leave between his moment and now that arafat brought 4 more peace agreements on the way and people come to us because they know that this is the real thing i deliver the. expect that's not happening and fundamentally and various means and makes it even. reaches now people can also be bussed in from all over the country to literally impose take out the prime

war israel repeatedly opposed any such investigation taking place or middle east correspondent paula slayer picks up the story. well the international criminal court has announced that it's opening a full war crimes probe into the activities of both the israeli government and him us since 2014 this includes the 2014 gaza war the 2018 border crisis the israeli settlement expansion in the west bank and hamas is firing of rockets against israel it has taken the better part of half a decade for the international criminal court to reach this point the decision to open an investigation followed a painstaking preliminary examination undertaken by my office that lasted close to 5 years our central concern must be for the victims of crimes both palestinian and israeli arising from the long cycle of violence and insecurity that has caus deep suffering and despair on all sides in february the trial chamber of the international criminal court determined that the hague court has jurisdiction for opening a criminal investigation into the activities of israel and the hamas leadership for alleged war crime

has the lead and the potential to stay in power for a 6th reporting next from jerusalem here's paula slayers. the mood is cracked faced if to put it quite simply the initial results have come through him and they said he suggests that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on course for a now that term in office this might launch we depend on whether or not his full my ally and defense minister nuff to be finished he comes from further on the political right joins in alliance with him but what the turnout who essentially needs is a majority of 61 out of a 120 parliamentary seats and said here as i mentioned actually could have halted interviews slim people think he has many chop tain that it was a bit of sort of a surprise from netanyahu so the main contained in that was the most interesting leftist party. at t.d. hated by it yet you look at the pay do they seem to have done worse than they thought so what we're witnessing here is as has been happening for quite some time a gradual turn more mall to the right on the israeli political spectrum and further away from same tryst and le

an alternative to quarantine hotels well that's met with a mixed reaction from israelis hardy's paula slayer reports from the airport where the pilot program has been dogged. as you can see behind me it's largely deserted there are full flights that are scheduled to arrive the soft noon and passengers on those flights will be part and parcel of a new pilot program that is being launched today and which is hugely controversial a year ago one would not have imagined that we'd be in the situation now when you arrive in israel you have one of 2 choices either you choir in team in an army hotel or you can go home and do a home quarantine for 10 days but now you have to go home with an electronic monitoring system this entails wearing an electronic bracelet either around will restore your ankle now this bracelet is part of a tracking system it's connected to a smartphone which is connected to a sticker that is placed on one of the walls of a person's home the company monitoring the whole system will receive some kind of signal the moment the person steps foot out of the home so it's a way to try a

has been met with a mixed reaction by israelis score slide to auntie's middle east correspondent paula slayer she's across this story for us good morning to you paula what are the main concerns or know that israelis have about this new system. well i'm here with the international been going on airport and as you can see behind me it's largely deserted there are full flights that are scheduled to arrive this off to noon and passengers on those flights will be part and parcel of a new pilot program that is being launched today and which is hugely controversial a year ago one would not have imagined that we'd be in the situation now when you arrive in israel you have one of 2 choices either you quote in team in an army hotel or you can go home and do a home quarantine for 10 days but now you have to go home with an electronic monitoring system this entails wearing an electronic bracelet either around will restore your ankle this is then connected to a smartphone which you are given and this isn't connected to a stick which is put on the wall. but you set foot out of your home a signal is given a

to be something for the pundits to be poring over for the next few days and weeks right for now paula slayer interest and thank you for that. reaction now let's talk to political analyst to eat our road and welcome to our tea so it looks like he's got the numbers again but in terms of diminishing returns as far as turnout is concerned it's getting more and more difficult for him to get a convincing mandate isn't it to do you think is really going to do it this time that 6 time oh that is certainly the wow a $1000000.00 question here it is one of the most extremely difficult elections to predict the final outcome here are it's going to be days until the official are there what we're all of. you now even according to senior pollster serious group pollsters showing on t.v. they have never come across 'd any such complicated political our election to basically to analyze and i'm very happy because there's a whole there's basically an entire exclusive of cultural ations in that and the viewers hear such statements by other people. the meters whether or not will they join or not and that's pretty

of the land now let's go live to jerusalem our correspondent for the slayer either here we are again how's it looking this time paula. well essentially does has emerged an election of a way that would not need 10 yahoo sit stay in office and the initial exit poll suggests that it might just be doing that we are hearing and this was the prediction prior culls that netanyahu is it could pontius come in with some steam now they need 61 to secure a majority coalition and is netanyahu who owns alliances with other right wing parties he could get 50 people he's still short of the next $61.00 but there is a further right wing plot and headed up by enough to be bennett and it's been a joint been you wouldn't have the time yahoo's majority coalition with 61 see it very very slim majority there you do have the opposition which comes from the sentinel it's coming in with some $59.00 seats so at this stage it's still too soon to colds whether or not this means that we are going to have another government and in its own yahoo way that they will need to be in that at the next and remember that this is the most election in 2 years