President, elections committee head dismiss New Right's criticism of vote count; committee director blasts 'unbridled attacks' on public servants

Central Elections Committee says that other than one uncounted ballot, New Right team did not find any 'missing' votes

The Bennett-Shaked party, which fell just 1,461 votes shy of entering the Knesset, had alleged problems in the counting process of special ballots

Rafi Peretz reaches out to Shas and UTJ leaders, proposing they work together in coalition talks to advance issues of religion and state where they all largely agree

While the nerves of some politicians were taut to breaking point as they waited all day to hear their fates, they and us reporters could only sit and wait for tidbits of news

When they broke from Jewish Home, Shaked and Bennett left an angry religious-Zionist faction behind -- one none too eager to back them as they hover just short of the threshold