Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, and former military chief of staff Benny Gantz’s Blue and White list, have both accrued 35 of the Israeli Knesset’s 120 seats, with 94 percent of the vote counted. However, by bloc, the right-wing so far has 65 seats compared to the Center-Left’s 55, indicating that Netanyahu will likely form the next government. Blue and White initially had predicted leads ranging from one to four seats over the Likud.
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The Media Line’s Charles Bybelezer and Julia Altmann were at Likud and Blue and White headquarters, respectively, as preliminary results came in.