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The key issues shaping Israel's election

When Israel goes to the polls on Tuesday, voters will weigh in on military conscription, the economy and how the state should investigate its failure to prevent Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack. AFP looks at the key issues that have shaped the campaign. - Accountability for October 7 - Many Israelis have demanded an independent state commission of inquiry into the failures that allowed Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,200 people.

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Netanyahu's political survival on the line as Israel votes

By Steven Scheer and Pesha MagidJERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a fight for political survival in Israel's election on Tuesday, with voters weighing his leadership after the 2023 Hamas-led attacks, wars in Gaza and with Iran, and Israel's deepening international isolation.Yet Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving leader with 19 years in office, remains a formidable survivor, with nationalist politics increasingly entrenched and Israel's fragmented system potentially leaving him best placed to form a government.

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