In the election, the alliance received 1,220,381 votes and 33 seats in the Knesset, making them the second largest parliamentary group behind the right-wing Likud party.

[citation needed] Although they came in second, Blue and White, and their leader, Benny Gantz, received the recommendations of a majority of Knesset members to form a government.

However, many in the alliance, including Hauser and Hendel, feared the formation of a minority government with the support of the Joint List.

[1] To that end, Gantz began negotiations to form a unity government with incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party.

Hauser and Hendel, who supported the alliance's entry into a unity government, applied to split themselves from the Telem party.