Though his Likud party seemed to have lost the election on February 10th, by a whisker, to Tzipi Livni's Kadima, Binyamin Netanyahu has a good chance of becoming Israel's next prime minister. The rightist-religious block of parties, Mr Netanyahu's natural allies, emerged substantially stronger than the parties of the left which may back Ms Livni, the foreign minister, for the prime minister's office. Projections on February 11th, with the soldiers' vote still to be counted, showed Ms Livni's Kadima with 28 seats in the 120-seat Knesset and Mr Netanyahu's Likud with 27. The rightist-religious block numbered 65 to the left's 55.
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