Israel's Central Election Commission has published the initial results of the vote count, which show that with 25.2 percent of the ballots counted, the coalition supporting Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, won 63 seats over his opposition coalition with 49 seats. According to the results published by 4:05 a.m. on Wednesday, November 6, Majeli time, the joint list was assigned eight additional seats out of the total of 120 seats in the Knesset, which consists mainly of Arab parties that are not affiliated with either of the two coalitions. Based on these results, the Ra'am party, with 3.2% of the votes, is slightly below the quorum of 3.25% to enter the Knesset. The Reserve Forces Party with 2.9%, the People's Israel Party with 1.8% and the Haredi Party with 0.2% have not yet reached the required quorum. These results are preliminary and will change as the counting of votes continues. In the next step, notes written in double envelopes will be counted, including soldiers' notes.