Netanyahu's bloc leads Israel election but falls short of majority

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn Israel this morning, with eighty-five percent of ballots counted, Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud and its allies are set to win fifty-three seats in the hundred-and-twenty-seat Knesset, the BBC reports.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFifty-three is the biggest number on the board. Call it, he won.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA government needs sixty-one, Kenji, so that bloc is eight seats short. Gadi Eisenkot's bloc is projected at forty-eight, and Arab parties at nineteen.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEight short. That's a missed field goal from the parking lot.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd Eisenkot has rejected serving under Netanyahu, even in a rotation government, according to the Jerusalem Post.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorEarlier exit polls had the opposition ahead, so the scoreboard has already changed its mind once.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the exit poll said one thing and the count said another? Replay review.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe deadlock could lead to another election, though coalition talks may still produce a deal.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnother election. So, overtime.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThey have played overtime before, and I have watched every period.