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            <title><![CDATA[Israel Election Results Leave Both Major Blocs Short of a Majority, Arab Parties Poised to Hold the Balance of Power]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The vote count after Israel’s election is complete, but neither of the two major blocs has a majority on its own. They may be forced to seek support from the Arab-Israeli opposition, which has won more seats than ever before.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:26:36 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Israel election count points to deadlock as Netanyahu’s bloc leads narrowly]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The blocs are evenly matched as votes are counted in Israel's parliamentary elections. Benjamin Netanyahu's side looks set to win slightly more seats, but a deadlock is likely. Parties that have so far been left out could become kingmakers.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:49:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Israel exit polls show no bloc with a majority, Eisenkot’s leads in most surveys]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Neither bloc will win a majority in Israel’s election, according to exit polls. But most major TV channels’ exit polls show challenger Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s.]]></description>
            <link>https://swedenherald.com/article/netanyahu-faces-political-test-as-israelis-vote-in-election</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:55:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Netanyahu Faces Tight Election as Israeli Opposition Rallies Behind Gadi Eisenkot]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There is a fierce battle for voters in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is being challenged in Tuesday’s election by an opposition led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party. “He is running for office on an eternal war,” Eisenkot said of Netanyahu at a campaign rally.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:31:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Netanyahu's biggest rivals unite in Israel ahead of election]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Two of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main rivals are joining forces in the hope of toppling his government in Israel's upcoming elections.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:43:57 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Netanyahu Appoints New Shin Bet Chief Despite Legal Ban]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated a new head of the security service Shin Bet despite being forbidden to do so.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 19:05:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Israeli Supreme Court Halts Spy Chief's Dismissal, Seeks Resolution]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Israeli Supreme Court gives the government and the prosecutor general barely two weeks to find a solution regarding the dismissed intelligence chief Ronen Bar, who until then gets to keep his job. The case risks throwing Israel into a constitutional crisis.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:03:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Israelis Rally in Tel Aviv as Opposition Calls for General Strike]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu is met with increasingly strong protests in Israel. On Saturday evening, a new mass meeting was held against him in Tel Aviv and the opposition leader is calling for a general strike in protest against the Prime Minister.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:32:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Israel's outgoing army chief: 20,000 Hamas members killed]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Israel's army chief Herzi Halevi will resign on March 6. The reason is the Israeli military's failure on October 7, 2023, when terrorist-stamped Hamas attacked Israel, he writes in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz.]]></description>
            <link>https://swedenherald.com/article/israeli-army-chief-announces-his-resignation</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:21:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Netanyahu fires Defense Minister Gallant]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is firing the country's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, reports Israeli media.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:02:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Higher War Budget Presented by Israel's Government]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:39:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ceasefire Gaza: Hamas positive, refers to Israel]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The USA thinks the ball is now with Hamas. The terrorist group refers instead to Israel. As it says that the attacks will continue. The turmoil is many and hard to understand around the latest proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza War.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 06:05:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Netanyahu's dilemma: Hot on the verge of quitting over the peace plan]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[With an Israeli proposal for a ceasefire on the table, the world is on tenterhooks. But Benjamin Netanyahu seems to be stuck in a tricky ratchet. Two right-wing extremist ministers threaten to topple the government if the prime minister accepts the proposal.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 06:05:46 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Netanyahu: Israel's conditions have not changed]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Sex weeks' ceasefire talks are on the negotiating table and the world has gotten its hopes up for a war end. Now, an answer is awaited from Hamas, which is terror-designated, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he remains resolute to annihilate.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:41:12 GMT</pubDate>
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