According to the exit polls, Netanyahu will return to power (note these are projections and could change)

Right now it looks like:

Likud - 30 seats
Yesh Atid - 22 seats
Religious Zionism - 15 seats
National Unity - 13 seats
Shas - 10 seats
United Torah Judaism - 7 seats
Yisrael Beytenu - 5 seats
Labor - 5 seats
Meretz - 4 seats
Ra’am - 5 seats
Hadash - Ta’al - 4 seats

That would get Netanyahu to 62 seats. But of course, a shift of just two seats would deprive him of a majority, so there will be a wait for final results.

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I would note that is not locked in just yet.

Balad is closing in on the electoral threshold and if they pass it, Netanyahu’s coalition will be short.

That is pretty much what we are waiting on, to see if Balad passes the threshold, in which case Netanyahu will be short or if Balad misses the threshold, in which case Netanyahu will win.

I suspect that Itamar Ben-Gvir is someone we’ll start hearing a lot more about from now on.

No way!

I was assured right here on this very forum, he’d be doing time by now.