{"id":45282,"date":"2015-03-20T01:32:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T17:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45282"},"modified":"2015-03-20T01:34:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T17:34:28","slug":"israeli-election-results-show-victory-for-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/20\/israeli-election-results-show-victory-for-netanyahu\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli election results show victory for Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:66.666667% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/464962302?et=EMY9NwYtQcFpLmfQmcgrTQ&#038;sig=LUeeRI_IrGeiaCh3BipQLpzQFEtMRyyLx2VCpkijQ-U=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0 0 0 10px;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/464962302\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">View image<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>JERUSALEM &#8212; The final results from Israel&#8217;s hard-fought election show a resounding victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s right-wing Likud party and place him in the best position to form the next government.<\/p>\n<p>With nearly all the votes counted, Likud earned 29 out of parliament&#8217;s 120 seats and should be able to build a coalition government with right-wing and religious allies with relative ease.<\/p>\n<p>Exit polls after the voting stations closed late Tuesday showed Netanyahu&#8217;s Likud virtually tied with Isaac Herzog&#8217;s center-left Zionist Union, but once the actual results came pouring in early Wednesday, the latter had dropped to just 24 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all the votes were counted by Wednesday evening. The final results are expected on Thursday. The latest breakdown is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>LIKUD &#8211; 29<\/p>\n<p>ZIONIST UNION &#8211; 24<\/p>\n<p>(ARAB) JOINT LIST &#8211; 14<\/p>\n<p>YESH ATID &#8211; 11<\/p>\n<p>KULANU &#8211; 10<\/p>\n<p>JEWISH HOME &#8211; 8<\/p>\n<p>SHAS &#8211; 7<\/p>\n<p>UNITED TORAH JUDAISM &#8211; 7<\/p>\n<p>YISRAEL BEITEINU &#8211; 6<\/p>\n<p>MERETZ &#8211; 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com JERUSALEM &#8212; The final results from Israel&#8217;s hard-fought election show a resounding victory for Prime Minister &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":45322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,483,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-politics","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}