Kathmandu. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is in the lead when more than a quarter of the votes are counted in Israel’s parliament (Knesset) elections.
According to Israel’s Central Election Committee, more than 1.6 million votes have been counted. Al Jazeera reported that the Likud received 22.24 percent of the votes in a report updated at 2:47 p.m. local time.
Yashar Party of Eisenkot is second with 15.41 percent votes. The joint Palestinian-Israeli list is in third place with 8.28 percent of votes. Naftali Bennett’s party got 8.22 percent of the votes. More than 5.69 million out of 7.33 million eligible voters in Israel voted.