Yet again, the outcome of an election reflects the fragmented political landscape in Israel. Neither of the blocs, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his principal challenger Gadi Eisenkot, have secured the 61 seats needed for a majority in the 120-member Knesset. Coalition negotiations could take weeks, but at least two things are already clear. One, Netanyahu has not been decisively rejected by Israel’s deeply divided electorate in the first election held since Hamas’s horrific terror attack, which the opposition had sought to turn into a referendum on security failures on his watch. His Likud party has won 27 seats, while his bloc, which includes several far-right parties, has secured 53.........

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