Blue & white chair, Benny Gantz: we will not withdraw from obligation to more than million citizens

Blue & white chairman, Benny Gantz, wrote to his fellow faction members this morning that a gloomy sky was indeed emerging but that there was nothing final about it. This is because electoral and blue-white movements will be able to develop political moves of one kind or another. Gantz added that the media reports tell an endless story, and they do not hide the sun of hope that blue-white gave to the people and society in Israel. The former chief of staff also says that Blue and White has achieved an unprecedented historic achievement andfrom will not withdraw from its public obligation to represent more than a million citizens who want something else

A victory for the right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties in the Knesset elections. The counting of 97 percent of the polling stations shows that the right-wing parties and the ultra-Orthodox parties together have sixty-five seats, compared with fifty-five for the center-left bloc and the Arab parties.

After counting ninety-seven percent of the votes in the elections - equality in seats between Likud and kachollavan (Blue&White): thirty-five each. The ultra-Orthodox bloc has sixty-five seats, compared with fifty-five for the center-left bloc and the Arab parties
The ultra-Orthodox parties - Shas and United Torah Judaism - received eight seats each, the Labor Party and the New Tal list, six each for the right-wing parties and Yisrael Beiteinu, five for Meretz and four for each. Ten o'clock at night is sixty-seven percent and nine-tenths.
The prime minister and Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu declared his victory in the elections. In a speech at the Heichal Shlomo in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said it was a night of tremendous victory. He thanked the party activists who had helped achieve a great and unimaginable achievement. "The people of Israel once again trusted me for the fifth time - and more trust," Netanyahu said, adding, "When did we get so many seats? From the crowd there were cries: "Only not unity."
According to the prime minister, he began talks tonight with leaders of the right-wing parties, the natural partners of the Likud, as he puts it. "Tonight, almost everyone publicly declared that they would recommend me to our president, to form the next government," Netanyahu said. "It will be a right-wing government, but I intend to be the prime minister of all the citizens of Israel."
Earlier, Benny Gantz, the chairman of "Blue and White", announced the victory of his list and said that he would be prime minister of all - and not only of his voters. "This is a historic day," Ganz declared in a speech at a Tel Aviv events hall. "A great light is shining on our Israel ... More than a million people today chose 'blue and white,'" Ganz said, adding that the people and the society chose to unite and escape the schism. The chairman of "Blue and White" emphasized that the large party should receive the mandate from the president of the state and form the next government, adding that his list would act to establish as broad a government as possible. "We will be waiting for the results of the truth that will develop and develop in my opinion in our favor," Gantz said, adding that starting this morning, Prime Minister Netanyahu will be busy with legal cases. "The sooner we form a government, the more we can lead Israel properly.
Labor chairman Avi Gabai said after the publication of the polls that it was a huge disappointment and an electoral blow to the Labor Party. Gabbay expressed hope that the elections would lead to a change in government, which might ease the heavy political price paid by the party
According to him, in the morning the party will begin to investigate the election campaign and prepare itself for the next campaign. He expressed the hope that the chairman of Blue and White Benny Gantz would succeed in forming a government and said he would do everything to help him.
Knesset Member Ayman Odeh, a joint chairman of Hadash, said that the next Knesset would be a racist Knesset, a difficult Knesset, but that we would respect and be responsible. According to him, in a year's time the Arab public will be in the Knesset and Netanyahu will be in his natural place, in prison.
Meretz chairman Tamar Zandberg said after the publication of the sample results that the public voted blue and white because the public wants change and supports Meretz values. "We have hope tonight, at times like this it is no small matter," the Meretz chairman said.
The chairman of Shas party, Deputy Minister Litzman and the chairman of all of us, Kahlon, have already announced that they will support Netanyahu as prime minister.
The chairman of the right-wing parties' coalition, Rafi Peretz, said that the list would be the right-wing party alongside Netanyahu. "Religious Zionism succeeded, it's not a sectoral success, it's something much bigger, the Torah of Israel and the Jewish spirit won," Peretz said.
The new right-wing chairman, Naftali Bennett, who for the time being does not pass the threshold, said in his first response that leadership is being examined at difficult moments. "We have patience, faith and nerves of steel, the new right will pass, and it will pass," Bennett declared at the party headquarters.

The polling stations were closed throughout the country at 10 PM and the counting of votes began. In the end we will know the composition of the 21st Knesset. The president will have to decide who will lay the 35th government. Television models predict a close battle between the two blocs and between the two major parties: Likud and Blue and White. There may be significant changes with the publication of truth results.
The Channel 12 sample shows that Blue and White receives 37 Knesset seats and the Likud receives 33 seats. The Labor Party is crashing to six seats, Meretz gets 5, all of Moshe Kahlon wins five seats. The two Arab parties together have 13 seats. Among right-wing parties: Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu and the unification of extreme right-wing parties with five seats. The two ultra-Orthodox parties: Shas receives six seats and United Torah Judaism wins 7 seats.