Israel goes to the polls!!!

[Anonymous]

This is too close to call.

[Anonymous]

Very interesting results..



I look forward to reading Gaon's thoughts on this.

[Bricktop]

He must be in trouble. If he cannot win TWO elections in less than a year, it is clear he has lost the confidence of the people.

[cc]

Well, same could be said for opponents I guess



Anyhow, one never gets a majority in Israel



If I recall correctly, over 20 years ago, 2 parties got together and leaders took turns being PM ... I think Perez was one of them

[Anonymous]

He must be in trouble. If he cannot win TWO elections in less than a year, it is clear he has lost the confidence of the people.

He lost the confidence of one of his coalition partners. He has secular Russian parties and ultra orthodox parties in his coalition. Frickin hard to get them all on the same page.

[Moonpie]

Very interesting results..



I look forward to reading Gaon's thoughts on this.

I'm interested as well.

[Anonymous]

Very interesting results..



I look forward to reading Gaon's thoughts on this.

I'm interested as well.

Me too APC.

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[Gaon]

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[Gaon]

According to Channel 12, 95% of the votes from Tuesday's elections have already been counted, Blue and White stands at 33 seats and Likud at 32 seats, with Blue and White leading by a narrow margin. It is important to note that these are still not the final results.



Overnight, the committee was counting the near quarter of a million soldiers' votes cast by Israeli soldiers.



The Central Election Committee (CEC) has been updating its website throughout the day. The last update, however, was at 04:49 a.m.: 4,030,843 votes had been counted – almost 95% of the ballots cast.





The current official results according to the CEC (with mandates/seats according to Channel 12):



Blue and White: 25.66% (33)

Likud: 25.03% (32)

The Joint List: 10.73% (12)

Shas: 7.57% (9)

Yisrael Beytenu: 7.12% (8)

UTJ: 6.23% (8)

Yemina: 5.72% (7)

Labor-Gesher: 4.81% (6)

Democratic Union: 4.30% (5)

Otzma Yehudit: 1.87% (did not pass the electoral threshold of 3.25%)



Based on these results, without Yisrael Beytenu's eight mandates, the Center-Left bloc would have counted on 56 seats and the Center-Right bloc 56.

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It will be up to my leader, Avigdor Lieberman if Mr Gantz or Mr  Netanyahu get to form government.

[Moonpie]

Who do you want?

[Gaon]

Who do you want?

I am a right winger, so I want the Likud coalition. But, I am a Russian secularist and I would like to see Yisrael Beytanu in the right wing coalition. But, the haredim parties will not compromise with right wing secularists. So, we could be stuck with Blue and White and their leftist partners.

[Anonymous]

Who do you want?

I am a right winger, so I want the Likud coalition. But, I am a Russian secularist and I would like to see Yisrael Beytanu in the right wing coalition. But, the haredim parties will not compromise with right wing secularists. So, we could be stuck with Blue and White and their leftist partners.

Netanyahu has cancelled a trip to the UN and a meeting with Trump. It aint looking good for him. Benny Gantz could form a coalition with Arab parties.

[Moonpie]

Who do you want?

I am a right winger, so I want the Likud coalition. But, I am a Russian secularist and I would like to see Yisrael Beytanu in the right wing coalition. But, the haredim parties will not compromise with right wing secularists. So, we could be stuck with Blue and White and their leftist partners.

Netanyahu has cancelled a trip to the UN and a meeting with Trump. It aint looking good for him. Benny Gantz could form a coalition with Arab parties.

About time...just sayin...

[Anonymous]

Who do you want?

I am a right winger, so I want the Likud coalition. But, I am a Russian secularist and I would like to see Yisrael Beytanu in the right wing coalition. But, the haredim parties will not compromise with right wing secularists. So, we could be stuck with Blue and White and their leftist partners.

Netanyahu has cancelled a trip to the UN and a meeting with Trump. It aint looking good for him. Benny Gantz could form a coalition with Arab parties.

About time...just sayin...

My understanding is the Arab parties in Israel are quite left wing meaning the economic reforms Netanyahu initiated could be in jeopardy.

[Anonymous]

Who do you want?

I am a right winger, so I want the Likud coalition. But, I am a Russian secularist and I would like to see Yisrael Beytanu in the right wing coalition. But, the haredim parties will not compromise with right wing secularists. So, we could be stuck with Blue and White and their leftist partners.

Netanyahu has cancelled a trip to the UN and a meeting with Trump. It aint looking good for him. Benny Gantz could form a coalition with Arab parties.

About time...just sayin...

My understanding is the Arab parties in Israel are quite left wing meaning the economic reforms Netanyahu initiated could be in jeopardy.

They do not care about that. The Arab parties are really islamist parties.