<span style="color: #222222;">Israel's President Reuven Rivlin has nominated the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, today to try to form a government following the latest inconclusive election.<br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In a statement Rivlin said, no candidate has a realistic chance of forming a government that will have the confidence of the Knesset.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Rivlin's announcement came two weeks after Israel's fourth election in two years.<br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Netanyahu holds the most support 52 seats in Israel's Knesset, but that is still short of a 61-seat majority.<br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The opposition leader, Yair Lapid, earned 45 seats. There were 16 abstentions and rightwing nationalist Naftali Bennett secured seven votes from his own Yamina party.<br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The nomination gives Netanyahu a new chance to try to salvage his career. He is the country's longest serving Prime Minister with a record 12 consecutive years in office</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br />