The confirmation of the election results in Israel nullifies Netanyahu's claims of fraud Israel's Central Election Commission (CEC) officially announced the results of the parliamentary elections last week, after finding no evidence of irregularities that "jeopardized" the process, despite complaints of "theft" from Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud. With this, Israel's President Yitzhak Herzog began consulting with the parties, a step before giving the mandate to form the government, and asked for "courage" and "originality" from its leaders. read more