DEBKAfile Special Report February 11, 2009, 5:40 AM (GMT+02:00) Both claim lead spot for forming the next government. Nearly 100 percent of counted votes from Israel's general election Tuesday, Feb. 10, awards Tzipi Livni's Kadima 28 Knesset seats (out of 120) – only one place ahead of the 27 polled by Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud. He heads the right-of-center camp of 64 against the 56 of the center and left. Livni cannot form a government without Likud and defense minister Ehud Barak's Labor (13), unless her scant win is solidified by the still uncounted military votes. Neither has garnered enough of the vote to promise Israel stable government for a full four-year term with parliamentary support for new policies. The right-wing Israel Beitenu holds the balance. DEBKAfile Exclusive Report February 10, 2009, 4:55 PM (GMT+02:00) Twelve Jews were taken to hospital, some with knife wounds, and their homes looted in several revenge attacks for Israel's Gaza operation in the Azerbaijani town of Sumagait Monday night, Feb. 9. The next day, the Sumgait governor Vagif Aliyev called an extraordinary meeting with national security agents and ordered to find and punish the perpetrators. Kadima's lead over Likud shrinks to one place, spelling unstable government
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