Netanyahu Bloc Leads Partial Count, Lacks Knesset Majority

Netanyahu Bloc Leads Partial Count, Lacks Knesset Majority

Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc leads Israel’s partial election count with about fifty-five seats, while Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc holds forty-nine in the Knesset’s one hundred twenty seats. Neither camp has reached the sixty-one seats required to govern, while Palestinian-led parties hold sixteen seats and negotiations over a coalition majority are expected to take weeks.

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