Israel votes again

Israelis yesterday voted in a fourth election in two years, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hoping a world-beating Covid-19 vaccine rollout will win him another term. With coronavirus precautions at polling booths across the country, opinion polls show the race yet again too close to call. Opinion polls indicated an uptick for Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party in the campaign's final days, giving him a prospective coalition of conservative and ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties with around 60 seats in the 120-member parliament. Voting stations close at  2000 GMT, and while exit polls could point to voting trends, an official tally may emerge only late today.