Polling suggests the race for prime minister will be tight, as Benjamin Netanyahu runs against Benny Gantz 2.47am BST As we wait for results to come through, a look back at the day’s voting. Oliver Holmes, was in Sanhedria, Jerusalem during the day and has this dispatch.In Sanhedria, a religious neighbourhood of Jerusalem, television screens in the streets showed the image of Aryeh Deri, a politician and founder of the ultra-Orthodox party, Shas. 2.21am BST Partial results with 80% of votes counted showed Netanyahu’s Likud with 38 seats, 8 more than in the previous election in 2015, and Gantz’s centrist Blue and White Party with 36, the Knesset website and Israeli TV channels said several hours after polls closed. Exit polls on two of Israel’s three main TV channels earlier showed Likud several seats ahead while a third survey put Blue and White one seat ahead of Likud. Continue reading…
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