on 2013-01-23
Likud Beitanu – the party merger between Binyamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman – has 31 seats, that’s according to Channel 10 exit polls. Also, on the far right is Jewish Home, which look to have around 12 seats. Plus the Ultra-Orthodox parties – Shas with 13 seats, and United Torah Judaism with six. That affords the right wing a total of 62 seats in the 120-seat Knesset. Centrist party Yesh Atid has in the region of 18 seats, and Labor has 17. Tzipi Livni’s Hat-nuah party and Meretz have 6 seats each. The arab parties have 11. That’s a centre-left total of 58 seats. Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros reports from Tel Aviv.

