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Election Deadlock Leaves Israel Headed for Lengthy Coalition Talks

Linda Gradstein

   JERUSALEM - There is no clear winner from Tuesday's national election
   in Israel, the second time voters have gone to the polls in the past
   five months. With almost all the votes counted, the centrist Blue and
   White Party of former Israeli army chief of staff Benny Gantz has edged
   out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.

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