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The Arab vote just rewrote Israel’s political map

Israel’s election ended without a clear winner, but one result rattled the two major competing camps. Neither Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc, at roughly 53 seats at the latest count, nor Gadi Eisenkot’s, at around 48, could reach the magic number of 61 or more to form the next government. But the Arab parties, running under the Joint List and the United List, or Ra’am, have together snatched a historic 19 seats in the 120-seat Knesset. That would be the largest Arab representation in Israeli history,