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Netanyahu deadline to form government expires
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A deadline for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government has expired.
Benjamin Netanyahu wearing a suit and tie smiling and holding a sign: Benjamin Netanyahu failed to build a majority coalition © Reuters Benjamin Netanyahu failed to build a majority coalition
He had been trying for the past 28 days to build a coalition after the fourth inconclusive general election in two years, but the deadline ended at midnight on Wednesday (22:00 GMT).
President Reuven Rivlin could now formally ask another political leader to try to assemble a coalition.
But this could risk the country going to the polls once again.
This will be a blow for Mr Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving leader, but after the inconclusive result of the last general election in March, it is an outcome that was widely predicted, the BBC's Yolande Knell reports from Jerusalem.
President Rivlin could now give another member of parliament 28 days to try to build a new government.
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