Election special: deadlock in Israel, regime change in Serbia, US midterms

By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation

Tens of thousands of Israeli expats flew home to vote in Tuesday’s election – most of them, according to media reports, hoping for a result which would end Benjamin Netanyahu’s prime ministership.

It looks as if they will be disappointed. We’ll know more when all votes are counted and seats allocated. But an apparent deadlock in the new Israeli Knesset is likely to mean that Netanyahu stays on as caretaker prime minister – for the time being at least.

At 77.7%, according to Israel’s Central Elections Committee, it was the highest turnout in the country’s history and the…

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