Vote counting in the elections for Israel’s 26th Knesset continues, and as of Wednesday morning at 9:09 AM, roughly 60.2% of votes have been tallied after 478,371 additional ballots were added to the count. According to updated figures, Likud gains a seat and rises to 28, while the Yesh party holds 21 seats. The Joint List wins 12 seats, Yachad gets 11, the Democrats drop to 8, United Torah Judaism weakens to 8, and Yisrael Beiteinu also stands at 8 seats. Shas wins 7 seats, Otzma Yehudit strengthens to 7, and Religious Zionism-Zehut receives 6 seats.
Ra’am stands at 4 seats with 3.43% of the vote, just above the electoral threshold. Meanwhile, the Reservists party and the Economic Party remain below the threshold at 2.67%, as does the Amcha Yisrael party with 1.64%. In the updated bloc picture, the current coalition stands at 56 seats, the change bloc at 48, the Joint List at 12, and Ra’am at 4. These are interim results only, which may still shift as vote counting progresses.