Partial results from Israel's contentious election show no clear winner

What the coverage shows

Most outlets converge on the same basic picture: partial or near-complete results show no clear winner and point to coalition bargaining ahead. NPR and Al Jazeera are the main outlets foregrounding the competing claims around Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot, while BBC News twice frames the story around the lack of a majority, with one later update giving a seat count and naming Netanyahu’s bloc as leading but short. The Independent is the only outlet in this set to pivot to reported U.S. involvement in coalition talks.

Written by Crossfiled from the 5 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.