The country's two main political parties, Likud and Blue and White, are deadlocked without a clear path to forming a majority government as of Wednesday morning after 92% of the votes from Tuesday's national election were counted.
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Here are the results as of 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning:
Likud: 32
Blue and White: 32
Joint Arab List: 12
Yisrael Beytenu: 9
Shas: 9
United Torah Judaism: 8
Yamina: 7
Labor-Gesher: 6
Democratic Union: 5
The far-right Otzma Yehudit party failed to pass the minimum electoral threshold.
Seeming kingmaker Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday that he'll insist on a secular unity government between Netanyahu's Likud and Benny Gantz's Blue and White parties, which are currently tied.
Lieberman said that is the "one and only option" on the table.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will seek the formation of a new Zionist government that excludes Arab parties.
"There will not be and there cannot be a government that leans on Arab, anti-Zionist parties," Netanyahu said.
Gantz echoed sentiments for a unity government in a post-election speech in Tel Aviv early Wednesday, saying that political contacts with other parties are already underway.
"I mean to talk to everyone. We will work to set up a broad national government that will express the will of the people," he said.
Without Lieberman's endorsement, both parties appear to have fallen well short of securing a parliamentary majority with ideological allies.
However, final results could still swing toward Netanyahu.
