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Even Netanyahu’s Dirty Tricks Couldn’t Quite Win Him a Majority

NO HOLDS BARRED

From a rabbi’s secret recording to a supposed sex tape, there was nothing the indicted Netanyahu wouldn’t try. And the election outcome? Still two seats short in the Knesset.

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JERUSALEM—Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t held anything back.

Over the last year he’s flashed Israelis with racist taunts, and he’s heaped contempt on the system that made him and kept him in power for longer than any other Israeli prime minister.

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