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    "byline": "Jonathan Freedland in Modi\u2019in",
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    "excerpt": "They chant his name, they cheer and clap \u2013 and yet he is not the most dominant person in the room. Looming over the crowd that has gathered to hear Gadi Eisenkot, the former general who is the lead opposition challenger in Tuesday\u2019s Israeli election, is a man who is not there. It is the man Eisenkot seeks to replace as prime minister, the man who first served in that role three decades ago and who has held it, on and off, for 19 of the past 30 years. It is Benjamin Netanyahu.",
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    "title": "As a divided Israel prepares to go to the polls, can Netanyahu pull off his greatest political trick yet?"
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