With over 85% of the votes from yesterday’s national election counted, Benjamin Netanyahu appeared poised to return to the Prime Minister’s Office and finally bring an end to the political deadlock that has seen Israelis go to the polls five times in under four years.
The current vote count give Netanyahu’s Likud party 32 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.
Religious Zionism looks to have 14 seats.
And the ultra-Orthodox parties Shas and United Torah Judaism have won 11 seats and 8 seats, respectively.
All told, that would give a religious right-wing government led by Netanyahu a very firm (for Israeli politics) majority of 65 seats.
The parties making up the outgoing coalition won a total of 50 seats, with the remaining five seats belonging to an Arab party that refuses to join any Israeli government.
The far-left Meretz party will apparently fail to pass the electoral threshold.
These numbers could still change as the final votes are counted, and parties that failed to pass the electoral threshold are eliminated. Stay tuned for updates.
YES!!!!!
Hallelujah
An “anointed” leader for the time, for this generation.???? ????
I have a question: how is it possible that a
man who is on trial for corruption become the prime minister? What does the Bible say?
And a man who was expelled from the Knesset for tax evasion, Deri, be coapted in the new government?
Can someone explain to me?
Since he has not yet been proven guilty, and the law allows him to, Netanyahu continues in politics.
He and some of his supporters see the charges against him
in his ONGOING trial as “trumped up” no pun intended.
See https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/netanyahus-plea-bargain-hangs-on-disgrace/
Deri returning to be a lawmaker and minister having been convicted in the past is a harder case to
understand much less justify, even though he did have to take off several years
from active involvement. It seems there are certain posts the high court will not
allow him to hold. He is a very sharp politician and his constituency loves
what he does for them! Oy vey.
See also https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/next-israeli-govt-to-be-plagued-by-even-more-religious-coercion/