Exit polls show Israel's Netanyahu in a dead heat to keep his job
by Noga Tarnopolsky and Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Sep 17, 2019
3 minutes
TEL AVIV, Israel - Exit polls in Israel's do-over election Tuesday pointed to a dead heat between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is fighting for his political survival, and his chief rival, former military chief Benny Gantz.
That was in line with pre-election surveys suggesting a neck-and-neck contest between Netanyahu's conservative Likud Party and Gantz's more centrist Blue and White. With all 120 seats in the Knesset, or parliament, up for grabs, the initial exit polls suggested each party had garnered 33 or 34 seats,
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