What we know, what we don't know, and what could happen next in the Israel election saga
We all know the baseball rule that if the runner and the ball arrive at the base simultaneously, the runner is called “safe” because of the axiom “a tie goes to the runner.”
The same does not necessarily hold true in politics.
The cheery exit polls reported for the Likud and Binyamin Netanyahu did not age well. As we post our final election update before taking a breather for Pesach, it looks as if the election ended in a tie.
With some 87% of the vote counted, if these partial results were extrapolated to 100% of the vote count, the Likud would win 30 seats. With Shas winning 9, UTJ 7, and the Religious Zionists 6, the solid Netanyahu forces captured 52 seats.
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