<span style="color: #222222;">In Israel, the people today voted in an unprecedented third Parliamentary elections in less than a year to break the deadlock on government formation, with the country's longest serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fighting for his political survival amid indictments on graft charges.<br />'' <br />'' Israel's Central Elections Committee, CEC, said that 27.6 percent of registered voters had cast their ballots by noon, the highest figures for this hour since the 1999 elections when incumbent Prime Minister Netanyahu lost to Ehud Barak indirect elections for the premiership.  <br />'' <br />'' Neither Netanyahu, who heads the right-wing Likud party, nor his main challenger, Benny Gantz, the leader of the Blue and White alliance were able to put together majority coalitions following the last two elections. The final opinion polls suggested the latest round is too close to call.<br />'' <br />'' Some 10,631 polling stations opened at 7 A.M. Israel time to enable about 6.45 million eligible voters to cast their ballots. Exit polls will be released immediately after 10 P.M., with final results expected tomorrow morning.<br />'' <br />'' Israel's highly divided polity threw two inconclusive elections result in April 9 and September 17 polls with nobody managing to muster support of 61 Knesset members.<br />'' <br />''If the results of the third round of polls are aligned with current predictions, the stalemate is likely to linger which complicates the pitch for the Israeli Prime Minister who will go on trial in just two weeks after today's vote. </span><br />