After a final ballot count was conducted, it appears that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has secured a fifth term by a small margin of victory. The final count showed that another nationalist faction, the New Right party of Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, fell just short of the 3.25 percent of the vote needed to get into Parliament. The Prime Minster's Likud party has won 36 out of the 120 seats in Israel's parliament, making it the largest party in the governing body and leaving Netanyahu as the obvious choice to begin putting together a governing coalition. Once nominated to this role, he will have 42 days to form a government and build a coalition, which will likely be composed of cabinet members from the right-wing and religious parties.
