{"id":70252,"date":"2022-11-04T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T14:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=70252"},"modified":"2022-11-04T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T14:02:48","slug":"decisive-victory-netanyahus-bloc-secures-64-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/decisive-victory-netanyahus-bloc-secures-64-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Decisive victory: Netanyahu\u2019s bloc secures 64 mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\">(JNS)<\/span> \u2013 With more than 4.7 million votes officially counted, or 99.87% of the total ballots cast in Israel\u2019s election on Tuesday, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s right-religious bloc has emerged victorious.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70253\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/F221102OF04-880x495-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70253\" class=\"wp-image-70253 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/F221102OF04-880x495-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/F221102OF04-880x495-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/F221102OF04-880x495-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/F221102OF04-880x495-1.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70253\" class=\"wp-image-70253 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/F221102OF04-880x495-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/F221102OF04-880x495-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/F221102OF04-880x495-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/F221102OF04-880x495-1.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-70253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters at party headquarters in Jerusalem, Nov. 2, 2022. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi\/Flash90.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the results the Central Elections Committee (CEC) announced on Thursday evening, Netanyahu\u2019s bloc will pick up 64 seats. The far-left Meretz and anti-Zionist Arab Balad parties have been eliminated and will not enter the Knesset.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 4, 763,694 valid votes were cast, along with 29,947 invalid ones. Voter turnout was 70.6%. It took 36,213 votes for each Knesset mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The results are not official until they are presented to President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u2019s Likud Party will receive 32 seats in the next Knesset, with his likely coalition partners the Religious Zionist Party, Shas and United Torah Judaism receiving 14, 11 and seven mandates, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Yair Lapid\u2019s Yesh Atid garnered 24 seats, followed by Defense Minister Benny Gantz\u2019s National Unity at 12. Yisrael Beytenu will receive six seats. The Islamist Ra\u2019am and the predominantly Arab Hadash-Ta\u2019al will have five seats in the Knesset. The Labor Party will take four seats.<\/p>\n<p>The CEC\u2019s results confirmed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/israel-elections-2022-exit-polls-show-netanyahus-bloc-winning-parliamentary-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exit polls<\/a>, which predicted Netanyahu\u2019s return to the Prime Minister\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu on Wednesday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/netanyahu-tells-cheering-supporters-well-return-israel-to-its-place-as-a-rising-power-among-the-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hailed<\/a>&nbsp;his bloc\u2019s victory and thanked his supporters for their \u201cmagnificent expression of faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s become clear once again that the Likud is the largest party in Israel, above all the other parties by a wide margin,\u201d the opposition leader said.<\/p>\n<p>The nation, he continued, \u201cwants another way. It wants security. It wants to lower the cost of living. It wants strength. It doesn\u2019t want shame. It doesn\u2019t want to lower its head. It wants an upright stance. It wants political understanding, but with firmness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cYou know what else it wants? To return the national pride that was taken from us. And this we\u2019ll bring as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Herzog will by Nov. 16 at the latest designate a candidate to form a government, and that candidate will almost certainly be Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>The Likud leader, who served as premier from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021, would then have four weeks to form a coalition, with the possibility of a two-week extension.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/lapid-concedes-to-netanyahu-prepares-to-hand-over-reins-of-government\/\">Netanyahu will&nbsp;attempt&nbsp;to form a governing coalition by Nov. 15<\/a>, the date of the swearing-in of the new parliament.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Decisive%20victory%3A%20Netanyahu%E2%80%99s%20bloc%20secures%2064%20mandates\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1794],"tags":[208,8790,8795,86,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70254,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70252\/revisions\/70254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}