The right-wing bloc headed by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have an absolute majority in the Knesset (Parliament) after the legislative elections held on Tuesday, according to the practically completed official count, which places Likud and its potential allies with about 65 seats. The eternal Israeli prime minister will return to form a government for the sixth time. Parliament has 120 seats, so Netanyahu needed to guarantee himself at least 61 to confirm his return to power half a year and a year later. The Electoral Commission grants Likud 31 legislators, while its main supporter, the extreme right-wing Religious Zionism, appears with 14, an unprecedented milestone in the history of the extreme right in Israel. The block is completed by the two ultra-Orthodox formations (20). The leader of Religious Zionism, Itamar Ben Gvir, has promised that with him there will be a “completely right-wing” government, waiting to see how his speech fits into his foreseeable role as minister anti-Arab. “I will work for everyone, even those who hate me,” he said on Tuesday, according to the Times of Israel. Fifth elections in less than four years The centrist Yesh Atid, the party of outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid, is in second position with 24 seats , but its rise is not enough to offset the setback of other partners, such as Meretz, which has been left out of the Knesset by not having slightly exceeded 3.25 percent of the vote. National Unity, the formation led by the current Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, appears in the provisional count with 12 deputies, the same ones that Shas’s ultra-Orthodox would obtain. seats), Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beytenu (five), Raam (five), the Hadash-Taal Arab list (five) and Labor (four). The final results are not expected until Thursday, although with current forecasts on everything points to the fact that Netanyahu, with several pending legal cases for corruption, will return to the position he already held between 1996 and 1999 and between 2009 and 2021. Israel held its fifth elections on Tuesday, November 1, in less than four years, and seeks get out of the political paralysis and the vicious circle that has led to one electoral round after another since 2019.