以色列中央选举委员会驳回了总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡所属利库德集团提出的将周二投票时间延长至晚上10点（格林尼治时间20点）之后的请求。
Israel’s Central Elections Committee rejected a request by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party to extend voting hours beyond 10 pm (2000GMT) on Tuesday.
据一份声明称，该委员会主席团决定投票站将按原定时间晚上10点关闭。但在截止时间前已排队等候的选民，将被允许在该时间之后投票。
The committee’s presidium decided that polling stations would close at the scheduled time of 10 pm, according to a statement. Voters who joined queues before the deadline, however, would be allowed to cast ballots after that time.
利库德集团曾寻求延长投票时间，而犹太力量党则请求加入这一申请，理由是投票站出现拥堵和异常漫长的等待。
Likud had sought to extend voting hours, while Otzma Yehudit requested to join the petition, citing congestion and unusually long waits at polling stations.
加迪·艾森科特领导的亚沙尔党表示，该党“强烈反对”利库德集团的请求，认为不存在任何特殊情况可以为延长投票时间提供正当理由。
Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party said it "strongly opposes" Likud's request, arguing that no exceptional circumstances justified extending voting hours.
该党指责利库德集团试图为质疑选举公正性铺路，称此举是“内塔尼亚胡从今天早上起一直在散布的谎言”的延续。据中央选举委员会称，截至下午6点（格林尼治时间16点），以色列这场激烈角逐的议会（克内塞特）选举的投票率达到66.7%，为1973年以来该时段最高纪录。
The party accused Likud of attempting to lay the groundwork for challenges to the election's integrity, describing the move as a continuation of “the lies Netanyahu has been spreading since the morning hours.”Voter turnout in Israel’s hard-fought parliamentary (Knesset) elections reached 66.7% as of 6 pm (1600GMT), the highest recorded for that hour since 1973, according to the Central Elections Committee.
超过730万以色列人有资格参加此次选举投票，以选出拥有120个席位的克内塞特议员。投票站于当地时间早上7点开放。
More than 7.3 million Israelis are eligible to vote in the election to choose members of the 120-seat Knesset. Polling stations opened at 7 am local time.
此次投票是以色列自2023年10月在加沙地带发动种族灭绝战争以来的首次大选。
The vote marks Israel's first general election since the start of its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip in October 2023.