Israel‘s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again fallen short of a parliamentary majority with his hardline allies, final election results confirmed on Thursday, extending the country’s year-old political deadlock and weakening the longtime leader as he prepares to go on trial on corruption charges.
The embattled Netanyahu had been looking for a decisive victory in Monday’s vote, and initial exit polls indicated his Likud party and smaller religious and nationalist allies captured 60 seats, just one short of a majority required to form a new government. Continue reading “Israel’s Netanyahu falls short of parliamentary majority”