The Takeaway: Israel: Deja vu, all over again

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Likud party supporters wave flags bearing the party's leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as they react at their party campaign headquarters in Jerusalem on March 23, 2021
Likud party supporters wave flags bearing the party's leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as they react at their party campaign headquarters in Jerusalem on March 23, 2021, after the end of voting in the fourth national election in two years. - MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images
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Hot take on Israel's uncertain election outcome:

Once again, for the fourth time in two years, an Israeli election produced no clear winner and the prospect of yet another vote. In the March 23 elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc received 59 seats, two short of a majority, and few seats seem up for grabs at this point, except for the five seats of Arab Joint List defector Mansour Abbas’ Raam party (see below). 

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