Deadlock ahead for Israel as election fails to deliver an alternative to Netanyahu coalition

By Roi Zur, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
Eitan Tzelgov, Associate Professor, University of East Anglia

The Israeli political system presently revolves around three blocs jockeying for position after the election failed to provide a decisive outcome.

Based on the latest figures – which are likely to change as absentee ballots and army votes are counted – the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, currently leads a coalition based around his own party, Likud, which will have 26 seats in the new parliament, or Knesset.

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