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Likud finished with twenty-seven seats and Eisenkot's Yashar party twenty-one, while Arab-led parties hit a record nineteen; the numbers are the only thing everyone agrees on.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's 10:30 Eastern, this is Should You Be Worried? Today's question: could Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition really be about to run out of seats?

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHis bloc finished with fifty-three seats in the hundred-and-twenty-seat Knesset, eight short of the sixty-one it needs, and it went in with sixty-eight.

  3. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFifteen seats gone.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA sixth of the building, Hank. I've lost a sixth of a biscuit tin and held an inquiry.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGadi Eisenkot's bloc has forty-eight, and two Arab parties took a record nineteen.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEisenkot has rejected serving under Netanyahu, even in a rotation, the Jerusalem Post reported.

  7. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEisenkot won't sit under him, not even in a rotation. A rotation, Hank. Even the musical chairs is off.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLikud has twenty-seven, Eisenkot's Yashar twenty-one. Nobody's declared anything yet. It's very quiet for a collapse.

  9. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSixty-one, Hank. That's the number. They're short, the allies are looking at the door, and the whole thing is over.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMildly worried. It's coalition math, and I assume the talks have barely started.

  11. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMildly. Hank, that's the nicest thing you've said to me, and you said it about the end of a government. Same time tomorrow.

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