From Yahoo News:
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The new kingmaker of Israeli politics grew up in a hardscrabble town in northern Israel, one of seven children of Libyan Jewish immigrants, and worked stints as a fisherman and fruit vendor before becoming a working class hero in politics.
With TV exit polls indicating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-line Likud and Isaac Herzog's center-left Zionist Union deadlocked at about 27 seats each, Moshe Kahlon and his upstart centrist Kulanu Party could tip the scale in favor of either.
With the keys to the next government in his hands, Kahlon looks to wield far more influence than the 10 out of 120 seats in parliament that his new party is projected to garner and focus the next government on tackling his flagship cause — Israel's high cost of living.
Personally, Kahlon appears poised to become the country's powerful next finance minister — regardless of who he ultimately crowns prime minister.
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