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Voter turnout hits 54.6% at 6 p.m.
Turnout at 6 p.m. hits 54.6 percent of eligible voters, 0.9 points below the number in 2013 at that hour.
Polls close throughout the country at 10 p.m.
Turnout by 6pm was 55.5% in 2013 and 50.3% in 2009.
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Netanyahu responded furiously to the ruling banning the press conference he had planned to hold at the Prime Minister’s Residence.
“The ‘anyone but Bibi (Netanyahu)’ party doesn’t stop talking without any interference,” Netanyahu said angrily, referencing Labor. “The only one who they decided to forbid speaking is me - the prime minister from the Likud.”
Netanyahu vowed “no one will silence me.”