Israelis are voting in national elections today, hoping to break the political deadlock that has paralyzed the country for the past 3½ years.
Main issue is former leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his fitness to serve amid corruption chargesAn electoral banner for Israel's Likud party, depicting its leader and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is hung above a market stall in Jerusalem on Monday.
An Israeli woman casts her ballot in a polling station in Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Tuesday. "People are tired of instability, of the fact that the government is not delivering the goods," said Yohanan Plesner, a former legislator who now heads the Israel Democracy Institute, a Jerusalem think tank.
The ultranationalist Religious Zionism party, whose provocative top candidate Ben-Gvir wants to deport Arab legislators and is a disciple of a racist rabbi who was assassinated in 1990, has promised to support legislation that would alter the legal code, weaken the judiciary and could help Netanyahu evade a conviction.
Netanyahu's Likud party has tried to tamp down worries, saying any changes to the legal code won't apply to Netanyahu's case and that the extremist elements of his potential coalition will be reined in.Netanyahu, currently opposition leader, paints himself as the consummate statesman and only leader capable of steering the country through its myriad challenges. Polls say the race is too close to predict.
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