Just 8-9 parties with real chance out of 32 registered for Sept. 17 vote

 By the Thursday night deadline, 32 parties had registered for the September 17 general election with the Central Elections Committee, down from 47 in the April ballot as a result of mergers in the right and left camps. The two dominant parties retain former leaders – PM Binyamin Netanyahu tops the Likud list with the foursome headed by Benny Gantz leading Blue-White. Ayelet Shaked holds top place on the United Right list, which Otzma Yehudit declined to join, and Nitzan Horowitz leads the far-left Meretz joined by former PM Ehud Barak and a group of Laborites. Amir Peretz leads the remnant of the Labor party after refusing to hook up with Meretz for a united leftwing bloc. There are no changes in the ultra-religious camp. The reunited Arab list is still headed by Ayman Odeh. The next government like its predecessors is bound to be a coalition since no party is expected to gain a majority on its own.

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