A divided Israeli electorate went to the polls March 17 in a vote that largely hinged on sentiment toward embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Supporters of Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv cheer as they hear the first television predictions of results after polls for the Israeli general elections closed. (ABIR SULTAN / EPA)
Supporters of the Joint List of Arab parties react to exit poll figures at the party’s headquarters in the city of Nazareth on March 17, 2015. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP/Getty Images)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prays at the tunnel section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party scored a resounding victory in Israel’s election.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Gershon Edelstein prepares to vote in Bnei Brak, Israel. (Oded Balilty / Associated Press)
Rachel Yankovich Roe casts her vote at a polling station in Netanya, Israel. (Ariel Schalit / Associated Press)
An Israeli border police officer casts her vote in Hebron, West Bank. (Tsafrir Abayov / Associated Press)
Israeli Labor Party leader, Isaac Herzog, who heads the center-left Zionist Union, casts his ballot with his wife, Michal, in Tel Aviv. (Thomas Coex / AFP/Getty Images)