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JERUSALEM, Sept. 22-- Israeli President Reuven Rivlin began on Sunday consultations with all elected parties before he decides the person who will be tasked with forming Israel's next government amid post-election political stalemate. The two-day round of consultations began with a meeting with Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White party. On Tuesday's elections, the centrist party won a narrow victory over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party. The meeting will be followed with talks with leaders of the Likud, the Arab-Jewish Joint List, the Jewish ultra-Orthodox party of Shas, and the far-right party of "Israel Our Home," whose leader, Avigdor Lieberman, has called for "a broad, liberal unity government" with the parties of Blue and White and Likud. | 
