Israel election live: polls open in most consequential vote in country’s history

Most polling shows prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition will lose its majority, with Gadi Eisenkot the leading opposition contender What you need to know about Israel’s election Four decades ago, when the extremist rabbi Meir Kahane won a single seat in Israel’ s Knesset, other legislators passed a law to prevent him running again, left the chamber when he rose to speak and worked…