It appears that even after the counting of the IDF votes, the Shas party remains with eight seats and will be the third largest party in the new Knesset. This will undoubtedly lead party chairman, Minister Aryeh Deri, to present Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with a hefty list of demands regarding which cabinet portfolios and positions he seeks for party members.

Yahadut HaTorah (UTJ), which was celebrating its growth to eight Knesset seats in the elections this week, is now feeling pressure as the latest count appears to move its eighth seat to the Meretz party.
UTJ is now just a few dozen votes shy of that eighth seat, which had previously seemed safe, as the Central Elections Committee is coping with a spate of irregularities in the reported votes.
The party which is benefiting at UTJ’s expense is the far-left Meretz party, the Kikar Hashabbat website reported.

Charges were filed Monday against an Oklahoma woman suspected of spray painting racist, anti-gay and anti-Semitic graffiti on Democratic Party offices in Norman and Oklahoma City.

Israel’s Central Election Committee chairman Hanan Meltzer said Thursday evening that results would be posted on the Knesset website “by midnight,” adding that while the figures released would be accurate, they could still be subject to updates.
“I wish to stress that we did not find any irregularities in the system or in the counts of the votes,” he said.
Based on consultations with security officials, Meltzer added that there was no suspicion of a foreign origin cyber attack.
The final total will be posted by April 17, when it is to be handed over to Israel’s president for review.

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