(Ha'aretz) With 95% of the vote tallied from Tuesday's Knesset elections, former Prime Minister Netanyahu's bloc was projected to win 65 seats in the 120-member Knesset, enough to form the next coalition government. As of Thursday, the results were: Likud (Netanyahu) 32 seats, Yesh Atid (Lapid) 24, Religious Zionism (Smotrich and Ben Gvir) 14, National Unity (Gantz) 12, Shas (Sephardi religious) 11, United Torah Judaism (Ashkenazi religious) 8, Yisrael Beiteinu (Lieberman) 5, United Arab List (Mansour Abbas) 5, Joint List (Arab) 5, Labor (Michaeli) 4. The veteran Meretz party did not pass the 3.25% electoral threshold.
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