There has been a significant story from the Israeli elections – the nation's longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, faces an uncertain future.
The incumbent and his main rival, Benny Gantz, are vying to build and lead a governing coalition.News World Ahmed
The stage is set for weeks of political haggling.
But after the second election in five months, what do the results tell us about shifting opinions and changing populations?
Resurgent voters
"People are bored of voting", you would hear from some as the campaign wore on.
Israel had never before had a second election in the same year, and there was speculation about voter fatigue. It didn't happen.
In fact, with nearly all the votes counted, turnout went up to nearly 70%, from 68.5% in April.bbc world service stream
Some of that rise was because many more of Israel's Palestinian citizens - Arab Israelis - voted this time than they did in April. Another minority group that turned out again in very strong numbers was the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.bbc world service stream
Both groups had come under attack during the campaign: Arab Israeli parties
from Mr Netanyahu, who told his base they were trying to "steal" the election;
and ultra-religious Jews from the former defence minister, Avigdor Lieberman,
who staked his campaign on a warning that Israel was at risk of turning into a
theocratic state.
The response from both communities was resurgent.News World Ahmed
Those are two very significant, important populations," says Yohanan Plesner
from the Israel Democracy Institute. "With respect to the ultra-Orthodox there
is a growth in their [political] power that reflects their demographic power."
Netanyahu's base fractures, News World Ahmed
Benjamin Netanyahu was sometimes referred to as the "magician" of Israeli
politics, coming back from his first term as prime minister in the 1990s and
politics, coming back from his first term as prime minister in the 1990s and
returning successive election wins over the past decade.
Of course, there is an explanation behind every illusion.
His trick had been to ally supporters of his right-wing Likud party with a diverse base - including more extreme right-wing nationalists and also with ultra-Orthodox Jewish voters. He began this merging of "secular" right-wing voters with the religious population in the 1990s says the journalist and Netanyahu biographer Anshel Pfeffer.News World Ahmed
But now that coalition seems to be fracturing.
Analysts believe Mr Lieberman gained two of his eight seats by draining votes from Likud – from right-wing voters who put their secular identity above their loyalty to Mr Netanyahu.
"The Netanyahu spell seems to have broken", Mr Pfeffer says. "They'll have to drag him out of the prime minister's office at the end, but we're at that point where it seems irreversible."
Who is Netanyahu's challenger? News World Ahmed
Netanyahu: Commando turned PM
Netanyahu: Commando turned PM
Meanwhile, some other parts of his base started to drift away.
In the months between the elections, protests broke out among Ethiopian Israelis after a member of the community was shot dead by an off-duty police officer.news world ahmed
The commentator Merav Betito writes that the results suggest Mr Netanyahu also neglected the Ethiopian community with policies that failed to take into account "weaker Israelis who live on minimum wage".bbc world service stream
He always felt more comfortable having his picture taken with foreign leaders than with local labourers," she says.bbc world service stream
Shifting Palestinian views
While around five million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza cannot vote in Israeli elections, they are affected by the decisions of those who can.bbc world service stream
The campaign led to a hardening of the view among Palestinians that the so-called two-state solution - the long held international formula for peace - is no longer viable, according to the pollster Dr Khalil Shikaki.bbc world service stream
His trick had been to ally supporters of his right-wing Likud party with a diverse base - including more extreme right-wing nationalists and also with ultra-Orthodox Jewish voters. He began this merging of "secular" right-wing voters with the religious population in the 1990s says the journalist and Netanyahu biographer Anshel Pfeffer.
But now that coalition seems to be fracturing.
Analysts believe Mr Lieberman gained two of his eight seats by draining votes from Likud – from right-wing voters who put their secular identity above their loyalty to Mr Netanyahu.
The Netanyahu spell seems to have broken", Mr Pfeffer says. "They'll have to drag him out of the prime minister's office at the end, but we're at that point where it seems irreversible."
Who is Netanyahu's challenger?
Netanyahu: Commando turned PM
Meanwhile, some other parts of his base started to drift away.
In the months between the elections, protests broke out among Ethiopian Israelis after a member of the community was shot dead by an off-duty police officer.
The commentator Merav Betito writes that the results suggest Mr Netanyahu also neglected the Ethiopian community with policies that failed to take into account "weaker Israelis who live on minimum wage".
"He always felt more comfortable having his picture taken with foreign leaders than with local labourers," she says.
Shifting Palestinian views
While around five million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza cannot vote in Israeli elections, they are affected by the decisions of those who can.
The campaign led to a hardening of the view among Palestinians that the so-called two-state solution - the long held international formula for peace - is no longer viable, according to the pollster Dr Khalil Shikaki.News World Ahmed
The campaign led to a hardening of the view among Palestinians that the so-called two-state solution - the long held international formula for peace - is no longer viable, according to the pollster Dr Khalil Shikaki.News World Ahmed
There is no doubt that the debate during the election campaign in Israel has been significantly damaging to the Palestinian willingness to support diplomacy and negotiations," he says, citing Mr Netanyahu's pledge to annex the Jordan Valley and all Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Israel and the Palestinians: What are alternatives to a two-state solution?
Polling conducted by his organisation, the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, from 11-14 September, suggested only 42% of Palestinians now supported the two-state solution. When Mr News World Ahmed entered office a decade ago the figure was around 70%.
Similarly, fewer than half of Israelis now support the two-state solution. Pollsters speak of Israeli News World Ahmed that there is a partner able to make necessary compromises or control a functioning Palestinian state.News World Ahmed
Dr News World Ahmed says that instead around a third of Palestinians opt for the idea of a "one-state" outcome - meaning a single country between the Mediterranean and the river Jordan in which every individual has an equal vote; something Israelis would see as risking the end of the Jewish state.
The left collapses
Israel's traditional left wing has been in near-terminal decline.News World Ahmed
The Israeli Labour Party - which grew from the movement that established the state and gave Israel four prime ministers including Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin - is on course to win just six seats in an alliance with another group News World Ahmed