JERUSALEM — Israel’s opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot vowed Wednesday to work quickly to form a government, saying voters had rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s divisive rule, but neither bloc secured a majority in the first election since the October 7 attack. Exit polls showed Eisenkot, a former military chief and political novice, and his opposition bloc even with Netanyahu’s hard-right camp in Tuesday’s election, with the highest turnout in decades. The strongest gains came from Arab Israeli parties whose voters turned out in soaring numbers against Netanyahu, who has relentlessly warned that the minority would dilute the Jewish nationalist direction in […]...

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