October 28, 2026 — 8:02am

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Tel Aviv: Neither Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition nor the grouping of Zionist parties hoping to remove him from office has come close to a majority in the Israeli parliament, setting the stage for days and possibly weeks of horse-trading, according to exit poll results.

Netanyahu’s Likud outperformed many pre-election opinion surveys to emerge as Israel’s single biggest party after an energetic election-day effort to drive the party’s traditional conservative supporters to the polls.

A television campaign advertisement on a bridge featuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and his main rival, opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot, before the election.…