With 86% of the vote counted, the right-wing bloc led by
Benjamin Netanyahu, known in Israel as the
national camp, was forecast to win a majority of seats at 65, while both leftist
Meretz and
Balad parties were under the
electoral threshold. As all the votes were counted, they remained under the threshold; far-right parties saw a surge in their vote share. In terms of votes, both blocs were neck-and-neck, with the anti-Netanyahu bloc achieving 49.5% but not gaining enough seats due to Meretz and Balad narrowly missing the electoral threshold, as 289,000 anti-Netanyahu votes went wasted in terms of seats share. Orly Ades, head of Israel's election panel
Central Elections Committee, said Netanyahu's party
Likud tried to undermine voting supervision, and described their actions as "something we've never seen before". Netanyahu's bloc went on to win 64 seats, while the coalition led by the incumbent prime minister
Yair Lapid won 51 seats. In addition to Meretz and Balad, the right-wing party
The Jewish Home also failed to cross the electoral threshold. as well as its most religious government. Lapid conceded to Netanyahu, and congratulated him, wishing him luck "for the sake of the Israeli people". Netanyahu received congratulatory messages from leaders around the world, including those of Canada, France, Hungary, India, Italy, Jordan, Sudan, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and the United Kingdom, among others. On 15 November, the swearing-in ceremony for the newly elected
members of the 25th Knesset was held during the opening session. The incoming Knesset includes 29 female lawmakers, 7 less than the last Knesset, and 28 new parliamentarians. The vote to appoint a new
Speaker of the Knesset, which is usually conducted at the opening session, and the swearing in of cabinet members were postponed since ongoing coalition negotiations had not yet resulted in agreement on these positions. The vote to replace incumbent Knesset speaker
Mickey Levy was scheduled for 13 December, after Likud and its allies secured the necessary number of signatures for it.
Yariv Levin of Likud was elected as a temporary speaker by 64 votes, while his opponents
Meirav Ben-Ari of Yesh Atid and
Ayman Odeh of Hadash got 45 and five votes respectively. He resigned on 29 December and
Amir Ohana of Likud was elected as the speaker by 63 votes.
Government formation ,
Ohad Tal and
Moshe Solomon ahead of nominating a prime minister-designate, 10 November 2022. On 3 November 2022 Netanyahu told his aide
Yariv Levin to begin informal coalition talks with allied parties after 97% of the vote was counted. Netanyahu himself started holding talks on 6 November. He first met with
Moshe Gafni, the leader of the
Degel HaTorah faction of
United Torah Judaism, and then with
Yitzhak Goldknopf, the leader of the United Torah Judaism alliance and its
Agudat Yisrael faction. Meanwhile, the
Religious Zionist Party leader
Bezalel Smotrich and the leader of its
Otzma Yehudit faction
Itamar Ben-Gvir pledged that they would not enter the coalition without the other faction. Gafni later met with Smotrich for coalition talks. Smotrich then met with Netanyahu. On 7 November, Netanyahu met with Ben-Gvir. A major demand from the UTJ was that the Knesset be allowed to
override the rulings of the Supreme Court. Netanyahu met with the
Noam faction leader and its sole MK
Avi Maoz on 8 November. President
Isaac Herzog began consultations with heads of all political parties on 9 November after the election results were certified.
Shas met with Likud for coalition talks on 10 November. By 11 November, Netanyahu had secured recommendations from 64 MKs, which constituted a majority. He was given the mandate to form the thirty-seventh government of Israel by President Herzog on 13 November. Otzma Yehudit and Noam officially split from Religious Zionism on 20 November as per a pre-election agreement. Likud signed a coalition agreement with Otzma Yehudit on 25 November, with Noam on 27 November, the Religious Zionist Party on 1 December, United Torah Judaism on 6 December, and with Shas on 8 December. Netanyahu asked Herzog for a 14-day extension after the agreement with Shas in order to finalise the roles his allied parties would play. Herzog on 9 December extended the deadline to 21 December. On that date, Netanyahu informed Herzog that he had succeeded in forming a coalition. The coalition government was sworn in on 29 December.
Satisfaction with results At the end of November and the beginning of December, the
Israel Democracy Institute polled Israelis on their satisfaction with the results of the election. 43% were found to be satisfied, 52% unsatisfied, and 5% were undecided. == See also ==