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Israel prepares to vote as Netanyahu faces a tight fight to stay in power, in photos · Best of: Features

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  Israel prepares to vote as Netanyahu faces a tight fight to stay
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  in power, in Photos. This article is being read by an automated
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  voice generated by Everlet. Campaigning and ballot preparations mark The
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  lead up to Israel's election Tuesday, widely seen as a referendum on
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  Benjamin Netanyahu, the country's longest serving Prime
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  Minister This is a photo gallery curated by the AP photo editors.
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  The rest of this article is a photo essay. The following are
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  the captions that accompany its fifteen photos. Photo one People cross
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  a bridge beneath a television campaign advertisement featuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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  Netanyahu, right, and his main rival, opposition candidate Ghadi Isencot, ahead of
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  Israeli general election in Ramat Ghan, Israel, Sunday, october eighteenth, twenty twenty
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  six. A supporter of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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  speaks through a megaphone to people during a campaign tour by Likud
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  supporters ahead of Israel's general election, at the Mohanyahuda Market in Jerusalem,
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  Friday, october sixteenth, twenty twenty six. Photo three Images
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  of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bottom, and US President Donald Trump
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  decorate wind spinners displayed at a shop in the Mahan Yehuda market
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  ahead of Israel.
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  General election, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, october twenty first, twenty twenty six. Photo
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  four. A worker prepares sheets of newly printed ballots seen at a
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  printing house ahead of Israel's general election, in Kyriat Gat, Southern Israel,
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  Monday, october fifth, twenty twenty six. Photo five. Gadi Isenkut,
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  leader of the Yashar Strait Party, arrives at a campaign rally surrounded
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  by his security team ahead of Israel's general election, Sunday, october twenty
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  fifth, twenty twenty six, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Photo six People
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  walk past a Likud Party campaign billboard featuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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  Netanyahu alongside opposition party leaders, and bearing the Hebrew slogan Right or
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  Palestine, ahead of
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  Israeli general election, in Beni Brack, Israel, Sunday, october twenty fifth, twenty
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  twenty six. Photo seven. Israeli National Security Minister Itmar Ben
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  Gvir leads right wing counter protesters as they face off against left
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  wing protesters outside Israel's Supreme Court, ahead of a hearing on the
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  electoral eligibility of blood party leader Sami Abu Shehade and Tuo leading
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  Arab parties in Jerusalem, Thursday, october first, twenty twenty six. Photo
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  eight. Hila Galili wears a headdress decorated with a ballot box during
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  an anti government rally ahead of the country's general election, Saturday, october
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  twenty fourth, twenty twenty six, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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  Photo nine Supporters of Israeli National Security Minister Itmar Benvir and the
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  Religious Zionism Party, led by Bezalil Smatrich, hand out campaign materials to
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  visitors at Jerusalem's Mahan Yehuda Market ahead of Israel's general election, Friday,
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  october twenty third, twenty twenty six. Photo 10 Gadi Isencott,
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  leader of the Yashar Party, second from right, greets supporters at an
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  anti government protest ahead of Israel's general election, Saturday, October. Photo eleven.
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  A bicyclist passes a campaign billboard featuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
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  left, and his main rival opposition candidate Gaddy Isencott, with a message
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  in Hebrew that reads, The race is tight as a poster featuring
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  Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smatrich lays on the pavement, Friday, october twenty
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  third, twenty twenty six, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli
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  Prime Minister and Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by his wife,
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  Sarah, speaks to supporters during an election campaign visit to Jerusalem's Mahan
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  Yehuda Market early Friday, october twenty third, twenty twenty six. A
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  defontrator wearing a mask depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds an Israeli
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  flag during an anti government protest ahead of the country's general election,
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  Saturday, October, Photo fourteen. Audience members look on as Ghadi
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  Isencot, leader of the Yasher Strait. Party speaks at a campaign rally
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  ahead of Israel's general election, Sunday, October. Photo fifteen. A
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  liquid party campaign ad featuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S.
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  President Donald Trump, with a Hebrew message reading, We have one opportunity
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  to win, appears on a bus in Jerusalem Monday, October twenty sixth,
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  twenty twenty six.