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• For the fourth time in under two years, Israelis voted Tuesday in elections that will determine if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — or Bibi, as he’s been nicknamed — will stay on in the position he has held since 2009. [The Atlantic / Jeffrey Goldberg]
• To form a government, Netanyahu and his allies will need to win 61 of the 120 seats in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. He has partnered with anti-LGBTQ, religious, and ultranationalist parties, meaning a victory would create a hard-right Israeli governing coalition likely to expand West Bank settlements. [NPR / Daniel Estrin]
• Netanyahu has a reputation for having nine lives, politically. While he is currently on trial for corruption charges, many Israelis credit him with the country’s highly successful vaccination campaign, which has inoculated a higher percentage of its citizens (not including Palestinians) than any other country in the world. [Reuters / Jeffrey Heller]
• The election is happening because an emergency unity government, formed as a response to the pandemic by Netanyahu and centrist opposition leader Benny Gantz, broke down over budget disagreements. Gantz’s deal with Netanyahu lost his party a lot of support — he was supposed to serve as prime minister after Netanyahu, but the breakdown triggered elections instead. [The Associated Press / Laurie Kellman]
• Experts say the race is too early to call, although exit polls suggest Netanyahu's bloc may have just enough votes for a governing coalition. A stalemate is still possible; for the opposition to have a chance, it would need to come up with a power-sharing agreement that would bring together centrists, leftists, hardline religious groups, and Arab parties. [Haaretz]

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• Evanston, Illinois, is believed to be the first municipality in the nation to approve spending on reparations to Black residents. [The Chicago Tribune / Genevieve Bookwalter]
• Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) is calling on the NCAA to investigate the disparities between its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments after the women were provided with lower-quality facilities, food, and merchandise. [BuzzFeed News / Salvador Hernandez]
• In a House hearing over potential statehood for Washington, DC, Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) argued the city did not deserve statehood because it did not have, among other things, a car dealership — which is not true. [The Wall Street Journal / Eliza Collins]