{"id":11212,"date":"2009-02-11T18:25:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/israel_rivals_vie_to_head_cabinet\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T18:25:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T18:25:48","slug":"israel_rivals_vie_to_head_cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11212","title":{"rendered":"Israel rivals vie to head cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the two main Israeli parties are seeking coalition partners to form a government after neither emerged the clear winner in early elections.<\/p>\n<p>The governing centrist Kadima won 28 seats and the right-wing Likud opposition won 27 &#8211; both well short of the 61 needed to form a government.<\/p>\n<p>The ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu came third with 15 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s president is expected to begin consultations next week about which party to ask to form a government.<\/p>\n<p>The election results &#8211; if confirmed &#8211; push the Labour party led by Defence Minister Ehud Barak into an unprecedented fourth place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/7883176.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the two main Israeli parties are seeking coalition partners to form a government after neither emerged the clear winner in early elections. The governing centrist Kadima won 28 seats and the right-wing Likud opposition won 27 &#8211; both<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11212\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,565,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-israel","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}