Israel’s Likud Party will have 18 seats in the new Knesset, a drop of 14 seats from the outgoing Knesset, according to exit polls. The Labor Party coalition will have 33 seats in the new legislature, as compared with 34 in the outgoing Knesset. The fervently Orthodox Shas Party is poised to increase its Knesset representation from 10 seats to 15, the exit polls indicated. Shinui, a new party that says all fervently Orthodox parties should be kept out of the next government, will have six seats in the new Knesset.
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