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Israel Election Deadlock as Coalitions Loom · Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Israel Today ongoing war report. I'm Noah Levi.
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  Speaker 1: Turning now to domestic politics, Israel is awaiting official results
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  Speaker 1: following a closely watched general election. Initial exit polls released
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday night indicate a tight race, with neither Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc, nor the opposition bloc, projected to secure
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  Speaker 1: the 61 seats needed for a Knesset majority. Projections from
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  Speaker 1: channels 11, 12 and 13 show Gadi-Eisenkot's opposition bloc holding
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  Speaker 1: a narrow lead, around 50 to 53 seats, against Netanyahu's bloc,
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  Speaker 1: projected at around 50 to 51 seats. While Netanyahu's Likud
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  Speaker 1: emerged as the largest single party, Gadi-Eisenkot has declared victory
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  Speaker 1: and asserted his right to form a government. A growing assessment,
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  Speaker 1: cited by Mariv News Flash, suggests Eisenkot may be the
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  Speaker 1: first to receive the presidential mandate. President Isaac Herzog faces
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  Speaker 1: a complex decision in tasking a leader with forming the
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  Speaker 1: next government, a process complicated by the projected strong performance
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  Speaker 1: of Arab parties, Ra'am and the Joint List, which together
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  Speaker 1: are expected to win 17 to 19 seats. Other notable
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  Speaker 1: projections include the B Yachad Joint Slate winning 12 to
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  Speaker 1: 14 seats, Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Bey Teh New securing 7
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  Speaker 1: to 8 seats, and Yair Golan's Democrats projected for 9
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  Speaker 1: to 10 seats. Far-right parties Yehudit Yehudit and religious Zionist
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  Speaker 1: party Zehat are expected to win a combined 12 to
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  Speaker 1: 13 seats, while Haredi parties Shaz and United Torah Judaism
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  Speaker 1: collectively project between 12 and 15 seats. Three new parties,
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  Speaker 1: including Ofa Winter's People of Israel, are reportedly falling short
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  Speaker 1: of the electoral threshold. Voter turnout reached historically high levels,
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  Speaker 1: described as the highest since at least 1973. In other news,
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  Speaker 1: Mariv News Flash reports a new and alarming threat from Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: which has reportedly stated its intention to kill Jews. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: also according to Mariv News Flash, heavy floods in southern
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  Speaker 1: Israel have caused an ATV to be swept away in
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  Speaker 1: the current, raising concerns for the driver's safety. For continuing
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