Moshe Lion may not only lose Jerusalem, but his Likud-Beytenu party might not get a seat on the city council. With over 70 percent of ballot boxes counted, the party has 3.47 percent in the council vote, putting it right at the edge.
Israel National News reports Lion visited the Jerusalem hotel where his victory party was to take place, and entered a closed room.
Lion’s other party, Shas, is not having the best night either. Aside from possibly losing Jerusalem, it also may not win the ultra-Orthodox city of Elad, where Lithuanian candidate Israel Porush holds a slight lead over Shas’s Tzuriel Krispel.
In Beit Shemesh, though, the party’s Moshe Abutbul looks set to win over Eli Cohen.
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