Several exit polls have indicated Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to secure a ruling majority in elections there.

Exit polls were released by Israeli television channels on Tuesday night.

The biggest party, according to the two of the polls, is Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan.

An exit poll from Israel's Channel 13 News

Channel 12 News's exit polls shows Kahol Lavan leading with 34 seats, while Netanyahu's Likud party is projected to take 33 seats.

Another poll from Channel 13 News showed Kahol Lavan leading with 33 seats, while Likud is expected to gain 31 seats.

An exit poll from Kan put the two parties neck-and-neck

While public broadcaster Kan showed the two parties at a tie of 32 seats.

Mr Netanyahu would need 61 seats to hold a majority in the Israeli parliament.

The Jerusalem Post suggested the exit polls "predicted a stalemate" to form the next government.

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz and his wife Revital vote in Rosh Haayin, Israel | Image: Sebastian Scheiner/AP/Press Association Images

Voter turnout in the election has been put at around 63.7%, according to the Haaretz newspaper - which would be 2.4 points higher than it was in April.

Ahead of the election, Mr Netanyahu had said he would annex large parts of the Occupied West Bank if re-elected.

He said he would "apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea".

The Jordan Valley, which Palestinians want for the eastern perimeter of a state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, stretches from the Dead Sea in the south to the Israeli city of Beit Shean in the north.

Some 65,000 Palestinians live in the area, along with over 30 illegal Israeli settlements.