Now comes the hard part for Netanyahu

At a victory celebration early Wednesday, supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began to chant, “You are the magician!

 

”After a resounding clutch-time comeback in Israel’s parliamentary elections, Netanyahu is poised to serve a record fourth term as prime minister. If he makes it through the full four-year term, his time in office could exceed that of Israel’s longest-serving leader, the country’s founder, ­David Ben-Gurion.

 

Netanyahu will form his next government after a bruising campaign that exposed him to charges of racism and hysteria, for his complaint that “droves” of Arab Israeli citizens were voting and his warning that his opponents would welcome the militant Islamist group Hamas to the edges of Jerusalem.

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