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Netanyahu has easier task at forming coalition, but Gantz could get tacit support from Arabs. Blue and White, Likud in dead heat, with 36 seats each. Unity government likelier than ever.

Netanyahu takes to social media to ask voters to avoid complacency, warning center-left parties would strike alliance with Arab MKs and topple Right

Prime minister arrives at Judaism's holiest site for prayer, places note in cracks. Netanyahu hopes to win a fifth term despite corruption probes.

New Right party leader Naftali Bennett asks voters not to be swayed by Netanyahu's campaign to pull votes from smaller rightist factions • Labor's Avi Gabbay says he hopes elections result in government's replacement.

Voter turnout slightly lower than in the 2015 election. Netanyahu asks voters to help him accomplish "historic national mission." Final 24 hours of campaigning sees blitz of interviews, campaign stops and impromptu stump speeches ahead of up-for-grabs election.

Voting has begun for Israeli military personnel, with 643 ballot boxes set up for Israel Defense Forces soldiers across the country, available 72 hours before national polls open on April 9.

Even if many of us are disgusted by the filth and lies flung around in this election campaign, we must not forgo the privilege and obligation given to us once every four years.

In brief meeting with local council heads in Judea and Samaria, Netanyahu says he fears repeat of Likud's 1999 election loss. Ramallah, Amman, Ankara blast PM after he says he won't rule out annexing Judea, Samaria in future.

In an interview with i24News-IsraelHayom, prime minister vows to extend Israeli sovereignty to settlements in Judea and Samaria • Israel has to give Trump's forthcoming peace plan a chance, he says.

Prime Minister Netanyahu will appear on the i24NEWS-Israel Hayom election program today at 1 p.m. EST.