A 94-year-old man died shortly after casting his ballot in the historic Israeli elections this week.
Israel Kreis collapsed outside of his apartment building in Ramat Gan after returning from a polling station on Tuesday.
His daughter Shirley said he had been determined to vote for Benjamin Netanyahu’s main challenger, Gadi Eisenkot.
"Dad really wanted me to take him to vote for Eisenkot," she told Israeli tabloid Yedioth Ahronoth.
“I drove him to the polling station, and on the way back, as soon as he got out of the car, he collapsed and died.”
“I'm very glad he managed to vote. He's an example to all of us to go out and vote and exercise our democratic right,” she added.
Eisenkot, the leader of Israel’s Yashar party, called Shirley personally on Tuesday to offer his condolences after learning of her father’s death, the outlet reported.
Israel’s volunteer emergency response service ZAKA said it received a report of an elderly man having collapsed and died near a residential building in the eastern municipality of Tel Aviv.
ZAKA said it was supporting the family and that the body had been taken to a cemetery ahead of a funeral.
Eisenkot’s bloc was projected to win 48 seats in the election with almost all votes counted, while Netanyahu is on course for 53.
The results mean neither side is likely to secure a majority 61 seats and will rely on forming a coalition.
Netanyahu would remain caretaker prime minister during any coalition negotiations and potentially until another election next year.
While a caretaker government faces some constraints, experts say it retains powers, including over the war with Iran.
Both Netanyahu and Eisenkot offered competing claims to lead Israel after the election, with Netanyahu calling for a right-wing government and Eisenkot saying voters had rejected the longtime Israeli leader.
Netanyahu called for the formation of “a strong, right-wing national government,” while Eisenkot said the public had voted against Netanyahu remaining prime minister and called on him to retire from politics.
Arab parties outside the two main blocs could hold the balance of power. But Eisenkot has all but ruled out forming a government with them, complicating his path to power.
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