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Projected Knesset winners

by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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* One Israel, the Labor Party coalition, will have between 29 and 33 seats, compared with Labor¹s 34 in the outgoing Knesset.

* Likud will have 18 or 19 seats, a drop of 13 or 14 seats from the outgoing Knesset;

* Shas, the fervently Orthodox party, is poised to increase its Knesset representation from 10 seats to 14 or 15;

* Meretz Party, which has nine seats in the outgoing Knesset, will have nine or 10;

* 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;

* The Center Party, the new grouping headed by Yitzhak Mordechai, who dropped out of the race for prime minister a day before elections, will have five or six seats;

* Yisrael Ba¹Aliyah, the immigrants rights party headed by Natan Sharansky, was estimated to have won six or seven seats. It has seven in the outgoing Knesset;

* The Arab parties together will have six or seven seats;

* The National Religious Party will have five or six seats, compared to nine in the outgoing Knesset; and

* The Pnina Rosenblum Party, named for its founder, a cosmetics magnate, will get two seats.

According to the exit poll by Channel 1, the combined seats of One Israel, the Center Party, Yisrael Ba¹Aliyah, Shinui, Meretz and Pnina Rosenblum ‹ 61 in all ‹ could enable Ehud Barak, the prime minister-elect, to create a coalition that excludes the religious parties.


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