Posted on 03/17/2015 5:18:27 AM PDT by Dave346
Polls scheduled to close 10pm local time / 4pm EDT.
Turnout as of 9am was 7.4%, at 10am was 13.7%, and at 12pm was 26.5%.
Exit polls will be released when polls close in less than 8 hours.
For live coverage in English, click on link below:
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Good one!!
Only Ben Gurion served longer.
The TV commentators are grabbing at straws. “Wait a minute! There is a fraction of a seat which could give Herzog another full seat!”... What? Schadenfreude. The TV commentators are so panicked now.
You watching i24News?
According to CNN exit polls are claiming election too close to call! Praying and praying some more ....GO Bibi!!!!!
Will make no difference.
This is exactly where Netanyahu wanted to be.
The Left lost decisively tonight.
The polls said Zionist Union had it in the bag. They turned to be wrong.
You could tell the winds shifted with Sunday’s huge Right-Wing rally in Tel Aviv.
Reported that.....Three hours into the voting, turnout within the Arab sector stood at about 10 percent, compared with 3.0 percent in 2013.
Tsk tsk!
The Arab communists/fascists won big which drained away votes from Buzpi.
Congrats, Obama!
Soldier votes when they come in, should bag the Likud an additonal seat.
Likud 29, Zionist Union 27.
Trying to catch up.....
Do you have a link to live coverage that you are watching?
Are the exit polls a certain Netanyahu victory?
yes
10:13: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett Tuesday evening following the release of the first exit polls.
Bennett congratulated Netanyahu for his “victory,” and the two mutually agreed to begin negotiations for the formation of a nationalistic coalition government that would work to better the security and well-being of the Israeli people.
22:29
Bennett sounds upbeat tone despite fall to 8 seats
Jewish Home’s Naftali Bennett sounded a decidedly upbeat tone, despite the party’s collapse in the exit polls. From a high of 17 seats in polls a couple months ago, the party took just 8 seats in exit polls today.
“This is a great night for the people of Israel,” Bennett insisted to Channel 2. “The right-wing camp won.”
“I’m very glad the national camp won. The people chose right very clearly,” affirms the party’s number-two Ayelet Shaked.
22:26
Likud supporters celebrate ‘amazing victory’
At Likud campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv, activists celebrate the apparent win.
“It’s an amazing victory,” one party activist says, adding that despite the neck-to-neck results, the right-wing camp won. “There’s no such thing as a left-wing government.”
Despite the feeling of victory, however, cheers of “Bibi, Bibi” last only a few seconds, as the party officials and activists present wait for the entrance of the prime minister.
Its look like Israel will have a nationalist-religious coalition government.
Its a win since the coalition math doesn’t work for Buzi Herzog.
Iran’s spamming BiBi’s twitter fiercely....
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