Israel’s Likud Party and National Religious Party each won an additional Knesset seat after soldiers’ votes were counted. After the votes were counted Thursday night, Likud’s total rose to 38 and the NRP’s to 6. Two seats on the left were lost, with One Nation and Hadash both dropping from four to three seats.
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