Posted on 03/17/2015 5:21:54 PM PDT by goldstategop
The returns on voting from ballot boxes indicate that the Likud has significantly extended its lead over Zionist Union.
According to Israel Radio, officials have counted the votes of 25 percent of booths across the country. The results indicate that the Likud wins 32 Knesset seats while Zionist Union garners 25 seats.
Yesh Atid is the third-largest party with 11 seats, Moshe Kahlon's Kulanu faction wins 10 seats, the Arab List nosedives to nine seats, the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox Shas movement wins eight seats, Naftali Bennett's Bayit Yehudi dips further to seven seats, while Yisrael Beytenu, which has only mustered five seats, climbs to seven.
United Torah Judaism wins six seats while Meretz rounds out the list with five seats.
This was with 75% of the vote in.
Likud lost 1 seat, Zionist Union lost 1.
With 75 percent of precincts reporting before dawn on Wednesday, the Likud holds a seven-seat edge over Zionist Union.
According to official vote-counters, Likud wins 31 seats while Zionist Union comes in second at 24 seats.
The parties that follow are Yesh Atid (11); Joint Arab List (11); Kulanu (9); Bayit Yehudi (8); Shas (8); Yisrael Beytenu (7); United Torah Judaism (6); and Meretz (5).
Yep!
Wow. Obismo has his ash handed to him.
I wonder whether Obismo and his Zionist Union Socialista friends are considering putting the Arab voting block into the streets in a riot, just like Obismo did with his Orange Party Muslim friends with Rial Odinga in 2007, causing inter-tribal warfare , and the deaths of 7000 people, many women and children.
Obama’s pattern in Israel is the same as it was in Kenya in 2007.But the IDF won’t put up with genocide the way that Kenyans did in 2007 at the hands of Obismo and Odinga.
Obismo likes to meddle with elections, as he did in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood, where the Obismo initiative failed there too.
Hurrah for Bibi!
The President decides who can best form a government. If the results posted hold up - that will go to Netanyahu.
Yep, at our house, for sure!
Zionist Union was using their name to confuse. They were NOT Zionist. Definite leftists.
If he has a five or six seat edge, he can afford to turn down a national unity government.
The Zionist Union has not managed to budge the needle all night - its remained at 19%.
No, he is stoned...ValJar however.....
Just like here last November.
Great news, but MSNBC is reporting a tie with Likud and Zionist Union at 27 each. ???
The early exit polls were wrong.
Look at the popular vote total.
Can Netentyahu form a government without the Orthodox? This would be a dream outcome for Messianic Jews.
3.82 million counted which represents over 90% of the vote.
Likud leads ZU by 4.67%.
Yachad will apparently miss threshold with 3.01%.
Yes, by inviting Lapid.
Really, the American media are clueless.
Take a stab at what the top 20 headlines tomorrow morning that have already been written, ready to post, had Net lost.
Just think. That’s how certain the MenSeekingMedia were that he’d lose.
By around 5%. Its a nice margin and with 10% left I don’t see Zionist Union closing the gap.
Oh yeah, I'm sure he's calling in his people and asking them why the hell he sent them to Israel for if they can't defeat Netanyahu!
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