Exit polls in Israel's do-over election indicate no clear winner. The fate of Israel's longest-serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, looks uncertain.
For the second time in less than six months, Israelis failed Tuesday to convincingly back a prime minister in an election that highlighted the Jewish state's complex secular-religious divide and pitted its longest-serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, against Benny Gantz, the hawkish former head of Israel's military.
Exit polls predicated that neither politician's party secured a majority, meaning that in order for either to form a government they would need to enter into a coalition deal with opposition parties. Forming a coalition could take days or weeks. Netanyahu failed to form a government in a vote in April, which set up Tuesday's election do-over.
He has also repeatedly boasted of his close relationship with President Donald Trump, who has undertaken a series of high-profile, pro-Israel actions from moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to recognizing the Golan Heights. Huge billboards of Netanyahu and Trump side-by-side are plastered all over the country.
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