Posted on 03/02/2020 12:38:44 PM PST by Eleutheria5
With polls closing across Israel, exit polls published by Channel 12 News show that the Likud party has won 37 Knesset seats while the Blue and White party has won 33 seats.
The Joint Arab List won 14 seats, Shas nine seats, United Torah Judaism seven seats, Yamina seven, Labor-Gesher-Meretz seven, and Yisrael Beyteinu six seats.
According to the exit poll, the right-wing bloc received 60 seats, one shy of the 61 majority necessary to form a coalition.
A Channel 13 News exit poll also showed the right-wing bloc winning 60 seats. The poll also found that the Likud won 37 seats, while Blue and White won 32 seats.
According to the Channel 13 poll, the Joint Arab List won 14 seats, Shas nine, Yisrael Beyteinu eight, United Torah Judaism eight, Yamina six, and Labor-Gesher-Meretz six seats.
A Kan News exit poll had the Likud slightly lower at 36 seats, while the Blue and White party won 33 seats.
According to the Kan News poll, the third largest party is the Joint Arab List led by Ayman Odeh with 15 seats. Shas won nine seats, United Torah Judaism eight seats, Yamina seven seats, Yisrael Beyteinu six seats, and Labor-Gesher-Meretz six seats.
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Likud can recruit defectors. It needs only one or two to form a stable majority government.
For the right price, people can be bought off with a Cabinet post and a Volvo.
which party features the billboard depicting a rebbe sternly wagging his finger?
This sounds good for Netanyahu - but what do I know? I started keeping an eye on Netanyahu’s reelection a LONG time ago....it’s the weirdest system! I lost track.
Haven’t seen that one.
“For the right price, people can be bought off with a Cabinet post and a Volvo.”
Heck, I’d demand a few bottles of rare single malt also! Helps when the Volvo is out for repairs (which it will be - often).
;-)
“According to the exit poll, the right-wing bloc received 60 seats, one shy of the 61 majority necessary to form a coalition.”
Good, but leaves the government essentially deadlocked... so likely, unless they pick up a seat and the polls are wrong, they will probably be doing this again soon.
One member who joins the 60 is in for one helluva Hanukkah!
Worse, it makes Lieberman into a kingmaker, and I’d just as soon he didn’t get to dictate terms of a coalition. He’s a two-faced SOB who can go right or left, depending on what’s good for him.
I just counted up Kan’s numbers, and with Shas and Yahadut Hatorah and Yamina, you’ve got 24. So if Likud has 37, there’s your coalition.
Majority of 61. Maybe 62 if Likud can gain an additional seat in the vote count.
KAN lists Likud with 36 seats so its 60 like the other projections. But if they have updated it, I agree that’s the coalition.
You spelled that wrong. The O’s should be a U and an A.
Too close for comfort.
Nice clip of soldiers voting in the snow of Mt. Hermon:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/276717
Soldiers’ vote is counted last. Should result in Likud netting an extra seat.
Five seats is a decent margin. When you consider Netanyahu is pinned down with a criminal indictment, this is nothing short of astonishing!
Given that everyone knows that they are doing the same to Netanyahu as they did to Trump is not astonishing at all, just the opposite, it brings more votes...
Thank goodness the citizens in the UK, US, and Israel are waking up!! The MSM has no more credibility!!!!
Haven’t seen it.
Is the Rabbi an Ashkenaz Hasid? If so, probably UTJ.
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