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Netanyahu and Eisenkot Dead-Heat in Crucial Expat Election
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- Behavioral economist Yoram Ariely flew from Florida to Israel to cast a ballot in the upcoming election.
- Israel permits absentee voting only rarely, forcing overseas voters to travel to their last domestic address.
- Eight in ten expatriates deem the election most crucial despite spending hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars.
- Polls show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition dead-heat with centrist Gadi Eisenkot.