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  • LEGISLATURE, THE PLAN WOULD

  • LAUNCH IN 2020.

  • ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN

  • NETANYAHU SAYS HE WON'T ATTEND

  • THE SUMMIT IN NEW YORK CITY NEXT

  • MONTH.

  • HIS TRIP WAS CANCELLED AFTER AN

  • ELECTION DAY SETBACK.

  • HE FACES AN UPHILL BATTLE TO

  • KEEP HIS JOB.

  • TREY YINGST IS LIVE WITH MORE.

  • TREY?

  • >> HI, DANA.

  • WITH 95% OF THE OFFICIAL VOTE

  • IN, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AND HIS

  • PARTY ARE CURRENTLY DOWN ONE

  • VOTE IN THE ISRAELI OPPONENT TO

  • THE BLUE AND WHITE PARTY.

  • THERE'S 5% LEFT TO BE COUNTED.

  • THE NUMBER COULD CHANGE

  • SLIGHTLY, THE KEY POINT HERE IS

  • THAT NEITHER CANDIDATE WILL FORM

  • A 61-SEAT MAJORITY VOTING BLOCK

  • IN ORDER TO GOVERN.

  • THIS PUTS THE PRIME MINISTER IN

  • A DIFFICULT BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE

  • POSITION TO REMAIN PRIME

  • MINISTER.

  • THE KING MAKER IS HIS FORMER

  • DEFENSE MINISTER AND RIVAL,

  • LIEBERMAN, WHO IS EXPECTED TO

  • GET NINE SEATS.

  • LIEBERMAN AND NETANYAHU HAVE HAD

  • PERSONAL ISSUES FOR YEARS.

  • LIEBERMAN IS CONSIDERED A

  • LIBERAL CANDIDATE.

  • THE TWO REMAIN CLOSE IN A DEAD

  • HEAT AND BOTH STOP SHORT OF

  • CLAIMING VICTORY.

  • ONE CALLED FOR A UNITY

  • GOVERNMENT THAT WOULD COMBINE

  • THE TWO LARGEST PARTIES.

  • WHILE NETANYAHU BASHED THE MEDIA

  • AND SAID HE'S WILLING TO FORM A

  • ZIONIST NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.

  • NETANYAHU TODAY IS INCITING FEAR

  • AS HE TRIES TO PULL TOGETHER A

  • GOVERNING COALITION.

  • >> THERE'S TWO OPTIONS, A

  • GOVERNMENT HEADED BY ME OR A

  • DANGEROUS GOVERNMENT THAT LEANS

  • ON THE ARAB PARTIES.

  • >> AS YOU MENTIONED, PRIME

  • MINISTER NETANYAHU CANCELLED HIS

  • TRIP TO THE U.N. NEXT MONTH.

LEGISLATURE, THE PLAN WOULD

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