FILE PHOTO - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Gali Tibbon/Pool
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced concern over anti-Semitism on the left and right in a congratulatory phone call to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday after an election that returned her to power but brought the far right into parliament.
Merkel's conservative bloc remains the largest group in Germany's lower house, but bled support in Sunday's poll to the far right and may need to cobble together a hitherto untested coalition with environmentalist and liberal parties.
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