{"id":40881,"date":"2019-09-18T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40881"},"modified":"2019-09-18T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:23:16","slug":"israeli-election-too-close-to-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40881","title":{"rendered":"Israeli election too close to call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Jerusalem  (CNN)<\/cite>As counting gets underway in Israel&#8217;s unprecedented <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/09\/17\/middleeast\/israel-election-benjamin-netanyahu-benny-gantz-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">repeat general election<\/a>, exit poll projections show the country&#8217;s longest-serving Prime Minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/01\/world\/meast\/benjamin-netanyahu---fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, and former military chief, Benny Gantz, locked in a tight race.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Just after polling stations closed across Israel, the country&#8217;s three main TV stations flashed the result of their individual exit polls &#8212; showing Netanyahu&#8217;s right-wing Likud party neck and neck with Gantz&#8217;s centrist Blue and White Party.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">These polls have a reputation for unreliability &#8212; both Netanyahu and Gantz claimed victory on election night five months ago, amid confusion over varying projections showing each ahead. In the end, Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government, and Gantz wasn&#8217;t given a chance.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem (CNN)As counting gets underway in Israel&#8217;s unprecedented repeat general election, exit poll projections show the country&#8217;s longest-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former military chief, Benny Gantz, locked in a tight race.Just after polling stations closed across Israel, the country&#8217;s three main TV stations flashed the result of their individual exit polls &#8212; showing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}