Sep 19, 2019 11:12 AM - [4:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on rival Benny Gantz to meet him “at any hour today” in order to hold discussions. “We must form a broad unity government,” he told the Kahol Lavan leader, whose party widened the edge over Likud according to the latest election results.
With 97 percent of the votes counted, Kahol Lavan [Gantz] has won 33 out of 120 Knesset seats, with Likud [Netanyahu] behind with 31 seats. Netanyahu’s bloc, comprised of right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties, currently stands at 55 seats. The center-left bloc has 57 seats.
Avigdor Lieberman, whose Yisrael Beiteinu party is projected to have eight seats, is expected to be the election’s kingmaker. On Wednesday morning, he reiterated his support for a “broad liberal unity government,” which would include Yisrael Beiteinu, Likud and Kahol Lavan.
September 19, 2019
A look at Judaism’s place in Israeli politics —
Battle lines often form around the country’s balance of religion and liberal democracy; those tensions were a central theme of the recent national election
https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-look-at-judaisms-place-in-israeli-politics/