Right-Wing Bloc Leads in Israeli Election Results After 37% of Votes Counted

By חדשות כיפה

Translated & summarized from Kipa by baba

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The Likud party is leading in Israel's 26th Knesset elections with 28 seats after 37.4% of votes were counted. Gadi Eisenkot's Yisrael Beiteinu party is second with 21 seats. The right-wing bloc supporting Benjamin Netanyahu currently holds 57 seats. Two parties, the Reservists and Economic party and Ofer Winter's Am Israel party, are below the electoral threshold.

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Likud leads with 28 seats after 37.4% of votes counted in Israel's 26th Knesset election.
Gadi Eisenkot's Yisrael Beiteinu party is in second place with 21 seats.
The right-wing bloc supporting Benjamin Netanyahu currently holds 57 seats.
The Joint List has surprised with 12 seats in the early results.
Naftali Bennett's Bayit Yehudi party has secured 11 seats.
Two parties are currently below the electoral threshold.

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Early results from Israel's 26th Knesset elections show the Likud party leading with 28 seats after 37.4% of the votes have been tallied. Gadi Eisenkot's Yisrael Beiteinu party follows with 21 seats, while the Joint List has surprised with 12 seats. Naftali Bennett's Bayit Yehudi party secured 11 seats. United Torah Judaism and Yisrael Beiteinu each received 8 seats. The Democrats, Otzma Yehudit, Shas, and Religious Zionism-Identity each garnered 7 seats, and Ra'am is projected to win 4 seats.

In terms of blocs, the bloc supporting Benjamin Netanyahu is currently at 57 seats, while the bloc of "change" parties holds 47 seats. Arab parties collectively have 16 seats.

Two parties, the Reservists and Economic party and Ofer Winter's Am Israel party, are currently below the electoral threshold. The former has 2.70% of the vote, and the latter has 1.76%.