Originally Posted by bigPunk

Thats also something that is seriously fucked up here, the election system...
In these election, over 20 parties raced between themselves to get as much votes.
In the Israeli parliament there are 120 seats, so we take the number of votes for each party then divide it by the total number of voters.

For example, the Likud (Netanyahu’s party) got just a little more then 1 million votes. After doing all the math, it comes up to 35 seats in the parliament.

Now, he has to gather with other parties to create a coalition that must have at least 61 seats in the parliament.
Its all shitty political games... that also means that there might be a situation when a party gets the most votes but if they cannot form a coalition they will not be the leading party.

Thats pretty much what’s happening now. Netanyahu got 35 seats, and the rival party also got 35 seats. All the rest (about 10 more parties) got 4-8 seats each.
Most chances are that Netanyahu will form a coalition with the orthodox jews parties (both got 8 seats each), and 2-3 more parties so he will have at least 61 seats.