Labor Party leader Ehud Barak was overwhelmingly elected prime minister of Israel, according to exit polls cited by Israel’s Channel 1 Television. He received 58.5 percent of the vote to 41.5 percent for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to exit polls released within minutes after the polls closed in Israel.
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