Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won a solid victory in Tuesday's national elections. With 99.5 percent of the ballots counted, his Likud Party had taken 29 or 30 of the 120 seats in the Knesset, or parliament, The New York Times reports.
Polls released Friday showed that his rival Isaac Herzog's Zionist Union party had a four- or five-seat lead and was picking up steam. Right before the election, Netanyahu promised that as long as he was in office, no Palestinian state would be established, a statement that angered many of his opponents.
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