ISRAEL ELECTION A QUESTION OF NETANYAHU’S COALITION WINS – The coming Israel election might produce another unstable government, if it forms one at all. The leading candidate to be able to potentially form a majority coalition, Benjamin Netanyahu, might come within one seat of claiming a majority coalition.
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Israel election polls predict Netanyahu just shy of victory – timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Polls on Friday predicted Israel’s former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would come within a single seat of an outright majority in his quest to return to power in next week’s election, the fifth in less than four years.
Netanyahu, on trial for corruption charges he denies, has been vying for a comeback, aided by an alliance between his Likud party and far-right party Religious Zionism – a pact that could test Israel’s foreign relations if it wins the ballot.
Two polls – one released late Thursday by Israel’s Kan public broadcaster and another published on Friday by the Maariv newspaper – both showed the Netanyahu bloc of four parties winning 60 of parliament’s 120 seats in Tuesday’s vote.
