Netanyahu lost in April, forced a rerun and lost even worse. Now the only question is will he step away into retirement, or toward trial and potentially prison.
On Wednesday morning, Tel Avivians, who voted overwhelmingly for parties that oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, were afraid to open their eyes. They feared a repeat of what has happened many times during the last two decades—going to bed after the exit polls, believing Prime Minister Netanyahu had been defeated, and waking up to numbers that shifted overnight, marking another Netanyahu victory. This time, that did not happen.
By Friday morning , the numbers were final—Blue and White had received 33 seats and the Likud 31; giving the center-left bloc a mandate of 57 seats, compared to 55 for seats for the right-wing bloc. The remaining 7 seats went to Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party. In the last election, Netanyahu's coalition received 60 seats, without Defense Minister Lieberman's party. For the aforementioned reasons, coupled with the belief Israeli voters have moved steadily to the right, Netanyahu was convinced he would easily increase his bloc to 61 seats in a do-over, and thus profit a coalition that would shield him from his legal difficulties.
When the history of this election is written, one fact will be clear—the Netanyahu campaign's efforts to suppress the Arab Israeli vote had the opposite effect. In this repeat election, Arab Israelis indeed came out in large numbers, and in almost all cases, voted overwhelmingly for parties who oppose Netanyahu — first and foremost, the Joint Arab list.
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