Israeli election: 'Wishful thinking' for pro- and anti-Netanyahu parties?

PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, October 28: Papers react to the ongoing election results in Israel. Next: Macklemore's Free Palestine tour is coming to Paris. Also: antidepressants don't work the way we thought. Finally: a sneak peek into boomer divorcées' dating lives. Both right-wing paper The Jerusalem Post and left-wing daily Haaretz talk about the record-breaking voter turnout in Israel and the fact that Arab parties are likely to win a record number of seats. Reuters shows us the exit polls from the main Israeli TV channels – Kan11, Channel 13 and N12 – all showing a very tight race with no majority and a record of 18 to 19 seats for the Arab parties. Israel Hayom writes that "Israel faces a political deadlock after the elections". Voters have delivered a verdict, but "not a decisive one", according to the right-wing paper. It says there's a gap between opinion polls in recent months and the exit polls we just saw. These, it says, are driven by developments in two key strongholds – the Arab sector and traditional Likud cities. The Times of Israel writes that "a government can only form if the same politicians who have been in power for years decide to mend fences and break decades-...