“We won’t have and can’t have a government dependent in anti-Zionist Arab parties,” Netanyahu proclaimed as the crowd of his supporters booed and chantend 'we don't want unity' government. “We are waiting for the real results – one thing is clear Israel is at a historic juncture.”

Israel needs a strong government, a stable government, a zionist government, a government that is committed to Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.

Netanyahu’s chief rival for the premiership, retired General Benjamin ‘Benny’ Gantz, gave his followers a cheerful “mission accomplished” speech in the early hours of Wednesday, encouraged by the exit polls.

“We will wait for the actual results, but the way things stand, we've fulfilled our mission," he said at the Blue and White HQ in Tel Aviv, adding that Netanyahu “did not succeed in his mission.”

Negotiations to form a national unity government are under way, Gantz said. Blue and White has previously said they were open to such a government with Likud, but only without Netanyahu anywhere in the picture.

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