According to news agency Reuters, with 99.5 percent of votes counted, Netanyahu's Likud party won 29-30 seats in the 120-member Knesset (parliament/legislature), comfortably defeating the Zionist Union opposition on 24 seats. A united list of Arab parties came in third.
His victory was indeed unexpected and hard fought one as opinion polls published 4 days before the vote showed the Zionist Union with a four-seat advantage over Likud.





