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(RNS) — After a record turnout in Tuesday’s parliamentary election, Israel’s political leaders will now spend the next few weeks jockeying over the shape of the next government and its leader, the prime minister.

Initial results show that neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party, nor his main challenger, Gadi Eisenkot, a former military chief of staff, and his Yashar Party, have a clear path to forming a government without seeking support from outside their blocs. Coalition-building has been the result of most general elections in Israel for generations.…