deciding whether to extend it prime minister benjamin netanyahu is conservative ten year for a fifth term he's up against his former military chief begun a centrist who's made much of corruption allegations against netanyahu but he is new to politics it's expected to be a very tight race as always israeli elections are being closely watched in the entire region in the middle east and also around the world. and we're going to take you to our correspondent in jerusalem in just a moment for those exit poll numbers but first i have here at the big table with me gilmer's yano he is a middle east analyst with the german institute for international and security affairs here in berlin guilds good to see you again so you know we're waiting for these first exit numbers but what has this vote been about today what were israeli voters what were they asking themselves when they would go into the there's