The end of the counting of the ordinary votes for the elections to the Knesset (Parliament) of Israel With the end of the counting of the ordinary votes for the elections to the Israeli Parliament, the state of the separation of the seats of the central political blocs was announced. The Likud coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu managed to obtain 53 mandates from the normal votes. The Tagir coalition or the opposition movement led by Gadi Eisenkot won 48 seats and Arab parties also managed to win 19 seats. About 600,000 votes remain, known as "double envelopes", and the process of counting them will end by tomorrow.