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Loyalty to Netanyahu is fraying in his Likud stronghold ahead of Tuesday's Israeli election as ex-army chief Eisenkot leads polls

Benjamin Netanyahu faces a deadlocked election on 27 October, with Arab parties holding enough seats to hand the opposition a majority if it joins forces with them.
Benjamin Netanyahu faces a deadlocked election on 27 October, with Arab parties holding enough seats to hand the opposition a majority if it joins forces with them.

In Kiryat Shmona, lifelong Likud voter Eti Ben Shabat, 64, says something 'snapped' over broken promises to crush Hezbollah. Most polling shows Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition losing its majority in the 120-seat Knesset. Palestinian citizens of Israel, about 20% of voters, are forecast to win 12 to 15 seats. Ahmad Tibi vows to do 'everything' to bring the government down.

'I don't want the lies to continue,' Ben Shabat says of Netanyahu.

Gadi Eisenkot, 66, brands the prime minister an 'anti-leader' and says he is running to 'save Israel'.

Eisenkot's son was killed two months into the Gaza war.

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