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Netanyahu, Gantz Deadlocked With Nearly All Votes Counted: Israel Media

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main challenger Benny Gantz were deadlocked with nearly all votes from the country's general election counted on Wednesday, Israeli media reported.Various Israeli media reported that Netanyahu's right-wing Likud and Gantz's Blue and White had 32 seats each of parliament's 120 with more than 90 percent of the vote counted.The reports were citing sources with the elections committee, as that level of results had not been officially posted yet.

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Retired Israeli General Benny Gantz in a security hawk who hopes to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tuesday's elections
Gantz, seen in this 2015 picture when he was chief of staff of Israel's army, boasted in video clips of the number of Palestinian militants killed and targets destroyed under his command in the 2014 war with Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers
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