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Israeli election Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wins for reelection in Tuesday’s voting but emerges weaker.
Jan. 23, 2013
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters with former Israel minister for foreign affairs Avigdor Liberman at his campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv. Netanyahu was reelected for a third term, according to exit polls. Israel had the highest turnout of voters since 1999. With 99 percent of the votes counted, results showed the combined ticket of Netanyahu’s Likud and the ultranationalist Yisrael Beiteinu faction losing a quarter of its seats in parliament,
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Jan. 23, 2013
Yair Lapid gestures as he delivers a speech to his Yesh Atid party in Tel Aviv. The party formed just over a year ago and is now parliament's second-largest group, after Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud-Beiteinu bloc.
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Jan. 23, 2013
Head of the Bayit Yehudi party Naftali Bennett, center, celebrates at his party's headquarters in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv.
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Jan. 22, 2013
Supporters of the far-right Bayit Yehudi party celebrate after the exit polls were announced at the party's headquarters in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv. Exit polls in Israel on Tuesday showed a bloc of right-wing parties winning between 61 and 62 seats in the country's 120-member parliament, potentially enough for a governing majority.
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Jan. 22, 2013
A man walks past a fellow ultra-Orthodox Jew standing in a balcony decorated with pictures of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Jewish spiritual leader of Israel's Shas party, on Election Day for Israel's parliament in Jerusalem. Israelis began trickling into polling stations Tuesday morning to cast their votes in an election expected to return Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to office despite years of stalled peacemaking with the Palestinians and mounting economic troubles.
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Jan. 22, 2013
An Israeli flag is seen in the background as a man casts his ballot for the parliamentary election at a polling in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ofra, north of Ramallah.
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Jan. 22, 2013
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu casts his ballot at a polling station in Jerusalem.
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Jan. 22, 2013
An Arab Israeli woman casts her vote during legislative elections in the town of Tira, in central Israel.
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Jan. 22, 2013
An Israeli woman votes in Tel Aviv.
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Jan. 22, 2013
A woman holds her baby before she casts her ballot at a polling station in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ofra, north of Ramallah.
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Jan. 22, 2013
Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party leader Naftali Bennett speaks with the media alongside his wife after casting his vote in Ra'anana, Israel.
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Jan. 22, 2013
An Israeli voter with his daughter and his dog registers to vote in the general election at a polling station in Tel Aviv.
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Jan. 22, 2013
An ultra -Orthodox Jewish man votes in Bnei Brak, Israel.
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Jan. 22, 2013
An Arab Israeli woman casts her vote during legislative elections in the town of Tira, in central Israel.
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Jan. 22, 2013
A girl waits for her mother as she casts her ballot at a polling station in the Bedouin town of Rahat, in southern Israel.
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Jan. 18, 2013
Activists hang up a campaign banner depicting Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich in Tel Aviv.
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Jan. 18, 2013
Ultra-Orthodox Jews reading election posters by the ultra-Orthodox Shas party in a religious neighborhood in Jerusalem. The posters show the spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, with text saying that the Bible is in distress and people should vote Shas in the upcoming Israeli general election.
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Jan. 18, 2013
Tzipi Livni, center, head of the Hatnuah party, holds a child as she campaigns at a boulevard in Tel Aviv. Livni, a former Israeli foreign minister and ex-Kadima leader, founded the party just two months ago as a centrist alternative to Israel's right-wing leadership. Hatnuah supports the revival of peace talks on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It has proposed social and economic initiatives that include a higher minimum wage and public housing expansion. According to opinion polls, it could capture up to 11 seats in the parliament.
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Reuters
Jan. 18, 2013
A commercial poster for an Israeli school with the manipulated image Naftali Bennett, head of Habayit Hayehudi party, or the Jewish Home party, hangs on a bus stop in Tel Aviv ahead of the upcoming Israeli elections.
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Jan. 17, 2013
A worker replaces a banner depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with another one in Tel Aviv. Netanyahu looks set to form a new governing coalition after next week's election, polls show, with the only question being whether he wants to soften its hard-line positions in dealing with the Palestinians.
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Jan. 17, 2013
Supporters of the Labor Party cheer as leader Shelly Yachimovich stands onstage during an event to mark the end of the party campaign in Tel Aviv.
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Jan. 17, 2013
Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich stands onstage during a campaign rally in Tel Aviv
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Jan. 17, 2013
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on the phone to persuade citizens to vote for his party at the Likud-Yisrael Beitenu headquarters in Tel Aviv.
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Jan. 17, 2013
Ultra-Orthodox Shas party campaign stickers depicting party leader Aryeh Deri, right, and spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yose are seen on a car in Jerusalem. A fixture in successive governments, the ultra-Orthodox party draws its support from the fast-growing community of religious Jews of Middle Eastern origin whose spiritual leader is the 92-year-old, Iraqi-born rabbi Ovadia Yosef. According to opinion polls, it will maintain its 11 seats in parliament.
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Jan. 17, 2013
Cars drive past a campaign poster depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
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Jan. 16, 2013
Passengers ride a bus with a campaign poster depicting Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, in Tel Aviv.
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Jan. 16, 2013
Supporters shout slogans from atop a bus driving in Tel Aviv as they campaign for the far-right Habayit Hayehudi party.
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Jan. 16, 2013
Supporters of the Habayit Hayehudi party stand in front of a campaign poster depicting leader Naftali Bennett in Tel Aviv.
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Jan. 14, 2013
A child stands on a Shas campaign banner that depicts Aryeh Deri during an annual pilgrimage to the grave site of Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, a Moroccan-born sage and kabbalist also known as the Baba Sali, in the southern Israeli town of Netivot.
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