Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud Party win big in Israeli …
Posted By admin on August 9, 2015
Benjamin Netanyahu will remain Israel's prime minister.
After intense campaigning, Netanyahu was re-elected for a fourth term. With 99.5 percent of the ballots counted, Netaynahu's Likud Party won 29 or 30 of the 120 seats in the Israeli Parliament, YNet news reported Wednesday morning local time.
The Zionist Union alliance, his center-left rival led by Isaac Herzog, garnered 24 seats.
When pre-election polls Friday showed Herzog with a near five-seat lead over the Likud party, Netanyahu stepped up last minute campaigning that included a promise no Palestinian state would be established with him as Israel's leader.
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Election results showed his last minute campaigning as well as his speech on the importance of a nuclear Iran to Congress earlier this month worked in his favor.
"I am proud of the Israeli people that, in the moment of truth, knew how to separate between what's important or what's not and to stand up for what's important," Netanyahu told a crowd early Wednesday morning at Likud's election party in Tel Aviv, according to the New York Times. "For the most important thing for all of us, which is real security, social economy and strong leadership."
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