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“Netanyahu does not have the seats to form a new government with his outgoing coalition.”

“Earlier, electoral officials said there was no evidence of irregularities and that unsubstantiated claims by Netanyahu's camp of Arab-led parties "stealing" the election did not justify delaying the results' certification.”

“- Published The main Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot and Arab-led party leaders have denounced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleging foreign interference following the election which saw his coalition lose its majority.”

“Would Netanyahu be ready to abandon his religious allies and form a coalition with right-wingers from the opposition bloc?”

“Netanyahu could try to persuade Eisenkot's Yashar Party to join his Likud Party in a unity government by ditching the far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties he is currently in coalition with.”

“When I recently met Mansour Abbas, head of Ra'am – the smaller of the two Arab lists – he told me that having been part of the diverse coalition that temporarily unseated Netanyahu between 2021 and 2022, he wanted to join the next government.”

“If they are right, after the election anti-Netanyahu parties wanting to form a governing coalition would either have to go back on pledges not to work with the prime minister or make a deal with Arab-majority lists.”

“Both men are powerful ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition.”