Knesset election result looks like a deadlock again

A number of years after Avigdor Liberman caused a deadlock with his defection to the left, now it looks like there's another one resulting from this year's Israeli election:

Polling stations across Israel closed at 10 p.m. Tuesday, and television networks released their exit polls for the 26th Knesset election following a day marked by particularly high voter turnout and intensive efforts by political parties to mobilize their supporters.

At the heart of the political battle are three crucial questions: Can the Right secure a majority, will the anti-Netanyahu bloc be able to form a government, and how will voting in the Arab sector affect the balance of power?

The exit polls offer an initial picture of the distribution of seats in the 120-member Knesset. But even after the official results are released, expected on Nov. 4, the road to forming a government remains long.

President Isaac Herzog will have until Nov. 11 to task a candidate with forming a government, and that candidate will not necessarily be the leader of the largest party.

If so, that's got to be the bad part of this. The Arab sector certainly influenced this result, and not for the better, though it makes clear much of the Arabic population here doesn't support the leftist parties anymore.

Update: here's more on the results.