The head of Israel’s Central Election Commission, Supreme Court Justice Noam Solberg, has asked the head of the General Security Service (Shin Bet), David Zini, to verify reports of possible foreign interference in the parliamentary elections on October 27. He demanded that the results of the review be submitted within a week.

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After 84.5% of ballots were counted, the bloc of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is leading in the parliamentary election: according to preliminary data, the coalition is getting 54 seats in the Knesset versus 49 for Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc. Neither camp has yet won the 61 mandates needed to form a government; official results are expected in early November.

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