Netanyahu delivered a tempered speech where he refused to concede the close race. 'Israel needs a strong, stable, Zionist government committed to Israel as a national state for the Jewish people,' he said.
report that the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history is trailing his competitor, centrist Benny Gantz, by one seat as of early Wednesday afternoon .
In recent weeks, however, the president's attention has been on Iran, which some analysts speculate may have hurt Netanyahu. Trump's wish to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as the Israeli prime minister insisted that Iran was developing its nuclear program potentially hurt Netanyahu's credibility, as did the White House's refusal to publicly support Netanyahu's recent decision to annex the Jordan Valley as part of Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends his Likud party meeting in Jerusalem on September 18, 2019. Netanyahu has cancelled his planned visit to the United Nations General Assembly due to the"political context" in Israel, sources in his office told AFP.Gantz has not yet declared outright victory, but he appears to be getting ready to."I promise tonight to start the journey of repairing Israeli society," he told his supporters late Tuesday night.
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