Both Netanyahu and Eisenkot promised to form a government Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival in the opposition, Gadi Eisenkot, both pledged to try to form Israel's next government. Tuesday's parliamentary elections saw the most enthusiastic turnout in decades. Netanyahu gave a speech this morning (Wednesday) to supporters of the conservative Likud party in Jerusalem. Netanyahu's coalition has 57 mandates with 41% of the votes; The final result may take weeks when 41.9 percent of the ballot boxes were counted in the Israeli elections as of 5:58 a.m. local time on Wednesday, preliminary results published by the Central Election Commission show that the pro-Netanyahu bloc won 57 mandates and the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot won 47 seats. Meanwhile, two mainly Arab factions "The Joint List" and "Ream" have a total of 16 mandates left. Conditions that, according to the Associated Press report, could make the announcement of the final winner of the election take weeks.

Both Netanyahu and Eisenkot promised to form a government Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival in the opposition, Gadi Eisenkot, both pledged to try to form Israel's next government. Tuesday's parliamentary elections saw the most enthusiastic turnout in decades. Netanyahu gave a speech this morning (Wednesday) to supporters of the conservative Likud party in Jerusalem. Netanyahu's coalition has 57 mandates with 41% of the votes; The final result may take weeks when 41.9 percent of the ballot boxes were counted in the Israeli elections as of 5:58 a.m. local time on Wednesday, preliminary results published by the Central Election Commission show that the pro-Netanyahu bloc won 57 mandates and the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot won 47 seats. Meanwhile, two mainly Arab factions "The Joint List" and "Ream" have a total of 16 mandates left. Conditions that, according to the Associated Press report, could make the announcement of the final winner of the election take weeks.