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.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warns Washington: Pressure us and we will mass produce advanced centrifuges • Iranian lawmakers convene with chants of "Death to America."