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Israelis go to the polls with Netanyahu's political survival on the line

By Steven Scheer and Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a fight for political survival in Israel's election on Tuesday, with voters weighing his leadership after the 2023 Hamas-led attacks, wars in Gaza and with Iran, and Israel's deepening international isolation. Yet Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving leader with 19 years ‌in office, remains a formidable survivor, with nationalist politics increasingly entrenched and Israel's fragmented system po