Israelis await final election results as difficult choices lie ahead

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Final election results in Israel on Thursday are expected to confirm a hung parliament. Difficult decisions lie ahead, including whether some Jewish and Arab parties will team up in a historic alliance, or whether some parties that campaigned to oust Binyamin Netanyahu will join forces with the deeply divisive prime minister.

While this plays out, Netanyahu remains in charge. Final results could come as early as Thursday evening after about a half-million absentee ballots are counted from military personnel, diplomats, people in prisons and hospitals and others.

They are not expected to sway the results dramatically. Local media projected 53 parliament seats for Netanyahu’s bloc, 48 seats for opposition parties and 19 for Arab-led parties, which also want to replace Netanyahu.

The chief rival to Netanyahu, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, in his first public statement since an address to supporters early on Wednesday, spoke of a government in service…

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