With 77% of the votes counted, the Bloc of Change strengthens and reaches 49 seats. Netanyahu's bloc remains at 54 seats. Eisenkot's bloc strengthens at the expense of the Arab parties, reaching 49 seats. The United List and Ra'am have 17 seats. The Likud remains at 27 seats, Yashar strengthens at 22. So far, over 10,000 polling stations have been counted, for a total of 4,421,561 voters.
At 10:03 (local time), with 72.4% of ballots counted, partial results published by the Central Election Commission gave 54 seats to the pro-Netanyahu bloc and 48 to the bloc led by Eisenkot. Arab parties now have 18 seats after Ra'am gained two.
The results of the vote in Israel portray a divided country, Netanyahu holds firm, but Eisenkot's bloc is ahead. Nobody has a majority. According to Channel 12's exit polls, Bibi's Likud is in the lead with 24 seats, while Eisenkot's Yashar stops at 22. However, the Change bloc of the former IDF head with 52 seats surpasses that of the outgoing prime minister which stands at 50. When about half of the sections have been counted, the Likud is in the lead with 20.81%, followed by Eisenkot's party, Yashar, at 17.06%. Netanyahu rejoices: 'Likud is Israel's largest party and the coalition has a majority. For this reason we must form a broad national right-wing government and do everything we can to ensure that a government is not formed with the support of the Arab parties." Trump: 'with my support Bibi went from defeat to what could also be a victory'.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's camp is ahead of the opposition, according to data released by the Israeli Central Election Commission after 50% of the votes were counted in the crucial general elections. With 50.1% of the votes counted, Netanyahu's bloc would obtain, according to projections, 56 of the 120 seats in parliament, compared to 49 for the opposition bloc and 15 for the Arab parties. Partial results are set to change; several exit polls indicated a situation of substantial parity between the two sides, neither of which would reach a majority.
“When President Trump expressed his support for Bibi Netanyahu, the situation completely changed, and now what seemed like a defeat for a Great Prime Minister appears to be an unexpected comeback that has led to a stalemate, if not a victory for Netanyahu.” US President Donald Trump writes it in Truth. "It all happened after the support of President Trump - he concludes - who only wants the good of the Middle East, Israel and the United States of America".
When 3,024 polling stations were counted, out of over 12 thousand, Benjamin Netanyahu's party, Likud, was in the lead with 282,772 votes, equal to 23.36%. According to what was published by the Central Committee for the elections for the renewal of the 26th Knesset, in second place is Yashar of Gadi Eisenkot with 190,524 votes, equal to 15.74%. The third most voted party is Insieme, led by Naftali Bennett, with 103,220 votes (8.53%).
''We have before us a historic opportunity to put an end, with our friend Trump, to the Iranian threat,'' Netanyahu said during the Likud election night rally, where the official results of the elections for the renewal of the Knesset are still awaited.
''We are still waiting for the final results, but two things have become clear so far: Likud is the largest party in Israel. The propaganda channels gave us 19 seats, and they knew they were lying, they wanted to depress the vote. The second thing is that the coalition has a majority. And for this reason we must form a broad national right-wing government and do everything we can to ensure that a government is not formed with the support of Arab parties''. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this when he arrived at the Likud election night headquarters in Jerusalem.
