Polls Open For Election In Israel



Reuters: Israelis vote to decide on Netanyahu's record reign

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to galvanize supporters into voting in Israel’s parliamentary election by playing up the prospects of his strongest rival, an ex-general who has pledged clean government, to deny him a fifth term.

Netanyahu, in power consecutively since 2009 after a first term from 1996 to 1999, is fighting for his political survival. He faces possible indictment in three corruption cases in which the right-wing leader has denied any wrongdoing.

Final opinion polls on Friday showed Netanyahu, who heads the Likud party, falling behind his main rival, former military chief Benny Gantz of the Blue and White faction, but with an easier path to form a government.

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