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Motti Yogev just ran to Ben Gvir before he went into the Central Elections Committee room and gave him a phone.

Reporting on the excitement from the scene in a twitter thread that will one day be optioned into a movie, Times of Israel’s Raoul Wootliff says Otzma head Itamar Ben Gvir was about to go into the main conference room to register his party when Jewish Home’s Moti Yogev ran up to him and handed him a phone.

“Until the last moment efforts continued - including via senior Likud officials - to include Otzma representatives on the list, but in the end the efforts failed,” Makor Rishon reports.

Though the party is seen as having almost no chance of crossing the threshold, there was enough drama to shoot the story to the top of the media agenda, with even left-leaning broadsheet Haaretz leading its print edition with the story. Powerless: The extremist Otzma Yehudit party was the author of what drama there was on Thursday night.

“It was a relatively calm night,” election official Orly Adas tells Army Radio.Ģ.

The lower number is a result of mergers and perhaps some smaller parties that shot their wad in April and no longer have strength/pockets to run again.

The 32 is down from 47 parties that ran in the last election.

The low number is likely a reflection of both the high threshold (3.25%) and parties joining forces either to push out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or keep him in power. The previous low was 10, set several times. The last time such a small number got into the Knesset was never.In all, 32 parties will run for spots in the Knesset, though only nine will seemingly get in barring any major surprises in the next 50 days.

It’s officially election season: It wouldn’t be an election without some drama and Thursday night’s deadline for parties to submit their slates had more than a little as parties rushed to file their lists.