“It is the only list that goes against racism, fascism and the right wing,” Tareq Awwad, a leftist college student at Tel Aviv University who backs the coalition told Al Jazeera Tuesday. “It calls for equality between Arabs and Jews, and it promotes women’s rights. It stands for peace and democracy.”

The Joint List appeared to benefit from elevated turnout in majority-Arab areas, which the right-wing Likud, in turn, tried to play to its advantage. In a video clip posted to his Facebook page Tuesday, Netanyahu warned: “The rule of the right is in danger. The Arabs are moving in droves to the polling stations.”