According to a source in Israel’s Central Elections Committee, with 92 percent of the votes counted, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud and Benny Gantz’s Kahol Lavan are tied with 32 out of 120 seats each. The Joint List, an alliance of four Arab parties, is slated to be the third largest party in the Knesset with 12 seats.
3:30 A.M. Netanyahu warns of 'dangerous anti-Zionist government' as supporters chant 'we don't want unity'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to form a “strong, Zionist government” after his Likud party came in second in exit polls in Israel’s election, warning his supporters of a “dangerous, anti-Zionist government.”
Speaking to a half-empty hall at the Likud campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu added he already began negotiations with Likud’s potential coalition partners on the right wing. “They all committed to pursue our goals together,” Netanyahu said, as his supporters chanted “We don’t want unity [government].”
Netanyahu also said “This election has been one of the toughest we’d known,” blasting “one-sided media that was against us. It didn’t stop us.”
"There won't and cannot be a government supported by anti-Zionist Arab parties who deny the existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, who glorify bloodthirsty terrorists who murder our soldiers," Netanyahu added.
