Elizabeth Zurkov, Israeli researcher: Apparently, the number of mandates in Netanyahu's coalition will eventually stabilize around 54 mandates. This is his lowest number of seats since 1996 and is equal to the number of seats his coalition won in the 1999 elections; The elections he lost. However, Netanyahu and the Right managed to discredit the participation of Arab parties in the government and managed to force the Israeli moderates to play by their racist rules.