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Global Journalist
5:44 pm
Thu January 31, 2013

Elections in Israel shift focus to political center

Credit Yair Lapid / AP Images
Yair Lapid, the leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, gestures in front of hundreds of supporters at his party's headquarters in Tel Aviv.

In elections held last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party received the majority of the votes, which secures him another term as prime minister. But the election wasn't exactly a complete triumph for Netanyahu. His party, Likud, only received 31 seats in Israel's parliament. That's 11 fewer seats than they received in the last election.

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