Allyson, Kaplan, summer, you write for Haaritz in Tel Aviv.

The Israeli election was yesterday less than six months after the last Israeli election.

Why are y'all having so many elections?

Yeah, it kind of feels like Deja Vu all over again.

We just basically retraced our steps from six months ago and the truth is the results weren't that different surprisingly.

The last elections were unresolved after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to recreate his ruling coalition.

It's a parliamentary system.

You have to put together enough political parties to join your government to form a majority.

Netanyahu failed at that and instead of deciding as the law states that he should hand over the mandate to form a government to the country's president so he can give his opponent a chance to form a government.

Netanyahu decided to take a different path.

He dissolved the Knesset and he called new elections, which is how we found ourselves voting again in September.

And the Knesset is the Israeli parliament for the folks watching at home.

So how did things go this time around?

Netanyahu pretty much lost his bet.

He was hoping that he could get better results this time in which he could get a definitive majority.

And instead it's looking as if he's got even less of a shot of a majority of 61 than he had the last time around.

If you go back in history, we weren't supposed to have elections until November.

He called the April elections because he could see indictments pending against him.

He is about to get indicted on corruption charges involving bribery, involving favors in three separate cases.

Less than two weeks from now, he is going to be going to a hearing in front of the attorney general.

It's kind of his last ditch hearing before these indictments will be handed down.

So his entire incentive in April and now again in September was to be able to go to court.

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