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JERUSALEM: Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu will be declared Israel's next Prime Minister with 50.4 percent of the vote, defeating Prime Minister Shimon Peres, according to final unofficial results released Friday by the Central Election Commission. The results were delayed by the extraordinarily close results and 144,000 absentee ballots had to be counted to break what was a virtual tie between Netanyahu and Peres. After Friday's results, Netanyahu will have 45 days to put together a coalition government. "He will form a coalition with right wing and centrist parties," says TIME's Lisa Beyer. "He can easily count...
JERUSALEM: Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu's political future awaits a Friday count of some 154,000 absentee ballots. With 99.9 percent of the vote counted, Netanyahu maintains a razor-thin lead of a few thousand votes over Prime Minister Shimon Peres. In an election many saw as a referendum on the country's peace process, Israel appears almost evenly divided. An unofficial count shows Netanyahu with 50.3 percent of the vote to 49.7 percent for Peres. Israel's course toward peace has been pursued aggressively by both Peres and his Labor Party predecessor, Yitzak Rabin, assassinated last November. Netanyahu...
JERUSALEM: As Israelis cast their ballots in the nation's most important election in decades, local exit polls showed Prime Minister Shimon Peres with the narrowest of leads over Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu. The polls, conducted by Israeli television stations, showed Peres leading by just one-to-four percent, which means the outcome cannot yet be predicted. At stake is Israel's course toward peace, pursued aggressively by both Peres and his Labor Party predecessor, Yitzak Rabin, who was assassinated last November by right-wing rabbinical student Yigal Amir. Netanyahu has come grudgingly to accept the accords granting...
...Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu desperately want to win over Ron Gadish. An executive at a high-tech firm in the coastal city of Herzliya, Gadish still hasn't made up his mind whom to vote for in two weeks. He views Peres, the incumbent, as visionary but perhaps too starry-eyed. Netanyahu seems more grounded but worrisomely untested. With neither Peres nor Netanyahu yet attracting a firm majority in the polls, the decision in the May 29 prime ministerial election will come down to Gadish's vote and those of the other 200,000 uncommitted Israelis...
Nasrallah: This war was waged for the electoral purposes of [Prime Minister Shimon] Peres. He thought if it happened before the election, it would save him. Experience has shown very clearly that there is no difference between Peres and [Likud's Benjamin] Netanyahu--except that Peres lies more than Netanyahu. Most of the wars launched against Lebanon and Arabs were launched by Labor governments...