NETANYAHU SWEEPS ..... OBAMA AND BIDEN WEEP

Back on Top: Netanyahu and Allies Score Decisive Electoral Victory

With over 85% of votes counted, Netanyahu poised to finally break Israel’s political deadlock with strong religious right-wing majority.

 

Israel Today Staff 

November 2, 2022 

 

Netanyahu and wife celebrate apparent victory

 

With over 85% of the votes from yesterday’s national election counted, Benjamin Netanyahu appeared poised to return to the Prime Minister’s Office and finally bring an end to the political deadlock that has seen Israelis go to the polls five times in under four years.

The current vote count give Netanyahu’s Likud party 32 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.

Religious Zionism looks to have 14 seats.

 

Itamar Ben Gvir, co-leader of Religious Zionism, speaks to supporters at the party's campaign headquarters in Jerusalem after the November 1, 2022 elections. Gvir is expected to get a cabinet position in Netanyahu's government. Recently, two US congressmen warned that if Netanyahu were to include far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir in a future government, it could damage US-Israel relations.

 

And the ultra-Orthodox parties Shas and United Torah Judaism have won 11 seats and 8 seats, respectively.

All told, that would give a religious right-wing government led by Netanyahu a very firm (for Israeli politics) majority of 65 seats.

The parties making up the outgoing coalition won a total of 50 seats, with the remaining five seats belonging to an Arab party that refuses to join any Israeli government.

The far-left Meretz party will apparently fail to pass the electoral threshold.

These numbers could still change as the final votes are counted, and parties that failed to pass the electoral threshold are eliminated. 

EDITOR'S NOTE: The very last thing Obama and Biden want to see is a return to power by Netanyahu.