Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara seal election win with a kiss. The central election committee said it had counted 90 percent of the vote, with breakdowns of the result in the media showing Netanyahu's Likud party with 36 seats in Israel's 120-member parliament. That would mark the party's best-ever result under Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister and its first to be indicted in office. Netanyahu's bloc is likely still one or two votes short of a majority, but his party spokesman said it was confident of luring defectors. "This is the most important victory of my life," he told supporters in Tel Aviv.

Source: The Standard March 03, 2020 17:15 UTC