No party has ever won an outright majority in the 120-seat parliament.
With little policy daylight separating the two candidates on Iran and the Palestinians, or on Israel's humming economy, much of the voting will by guided by the question of their character.
Netanyahu casts himself as the victim of media bias and judicial overreach. Gantz casts himself as a salve for Israel's religiously and ethnically riven society and its relations with liberal Jews abroad. Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, will consult with the leaders of every party represented in the Knesset and choose whoever he believes has the best chance of forming a government.
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