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Likud says it won full mandate, will go 4 years with right-wing government
Lapid, Gantz concede defeat, vow to turn Knesset into battlefield from opposition; Liberman warns he could go to opposition; final votes waiting to be counted
By Jacob Magid
and Joshua Davidovich
10 April 2019, 5:54 am 9 Edit
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10 April 2019, 5:54 am 9 Edit
- Benny Gantz reacts as he appears before supporters at the alliance headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 10, 2019. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces his wife Sara amid confetti during his victory speech before supporters at Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv after April 9, 2019's elections. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
- US President Donald Trump speaks to the press and congratulates Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his election victory, prior to departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, April 10, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
- Likud party campaign material and posters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strewn on the floor following election night at the party's Tel Aviv headquarters, April 10, 2017. (Jack Guez/AFP)
- President Reuven Rivlin (L) meets with Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer, the head of the Central Elections Committee, in Jerusalem on April 10, 2019. (Mark Neiman/GPO)
- URWP leaders Rafi Peretz (L) and Bezalel Smotrich arrive at an election results party in Kfar Maccabiah on April 9, 2019. (Nachshon Pillipson)