The incumbent Prime Minister's Likud party appears most likely to be able to form another coalition government with the help of right-wing nationalist and religious parties.
Nearly all of the ballots have been counted. Likud won 30 of the 120 seats in parliament. The party captured six more seats than its main opponent, the Zionist Union.
In response, a member of Mr. Netanyahu's Likud party Danny Dannon was quoted as " saying that Israeli policy would be determined by its democratically elected government."
The Nov. 1 general election returned a clear parliamentary majority for Mr. Netanyahu's Likud party and its right-wing allies, which include Jewish ultra-Orthodox and far-right ultranationalist factions.
The Likud party of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form a coalition including the centrist Yesh Atid and the pro-settler Jewish Home parties.