Israelis went to the polls on Tuesday to vote in the general election.

Prospect‘s deputy editor Jay Elwes reported from Jerusalem on the eve of the election and from Tel Aviv on election night.

Here are five more Prospect articles on Israel:

One last chance for the two-state solution?: “Netanyahu and his government… are unalterably opposed to Palestinian statehood anywhere in Palestine,”  says Henry Siegman, president of the US/Middle East Project

Stiff-necked people: Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, argues that Israel must be allowed to defend itself in a hostile region

There may never be peace: Britain’s former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Israel, Tom Phillips, gives the 10 reasons why it is almost impossible to resolve the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians

An Orthodox challenge: Can Israel’s ultra-conservative communities join modern society, asks Gershom Gorenberg

Goodbye to all that: We must defend a firewall between criticism of Israeli governments and anti-Semitism, says Tony Judt