Both the pro- and anti-Netanyahu blocs may need the support of Mansour Abbas's Ra'am to have any chance of forming a government

'Double envelope' ballots, some 10% of total, could yet determine Netanyahu's fate; officials expect final results by Friday; remaining 3% of regular votes expected soon

Some towns saw backing for right-wing party jump eightfold, but actual ballot numbers added up to no more than several hundred, and sometimes several dozen

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Latest electoral math shows conservative Islamist party essential to either coalition; PM would need to walk back previous statements and strongarm his right-wing partners

'People have gotten used to the fact that this is how it is here, and believe that in the end things will work out,' says capital markets strategist at Bank Leumi

With 80% of vote counted, anti-Netanyahu bloc satellite parties seen receiving between 6 and 8 seats, after many pollsters wondered whether they would make it into Knesset at all

Likud, whose bloc drops to 59 seats, split on possibility of coalition supported by Islamist party; Abbas: 'If there is an offer, we’ll sit and talk'

After yet another apparent election deadlock, PM stops short of declaring victory, pleads with opponents to partner with him -- a year after he persuaded Gantz to do so

Prime minister dramatically beat back the threat from rightist rebels. Yet nothing he did, not the vaccines, not the peace agreements, could deliver a win at the ballot box