According to the official results, Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party was the most voted one with 33 seats in the September 17 elections, followed by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud (32 seats) and Ayman Odeh’s Arab Joint List (13 seats). On 25 September, after consultations with political parties, the Israeli President Reuven Rivlin tasked Netanyahu with forming a new government, considering that his coalition was the largest in the Knesset, despite the Arab Joint List’s support to Gantz. The possibility of a coalition between the two main parties was previously ruled out as Gantz refused to “sit in a government which has a prime minister against whom stands a severe indictment”. Netanyahu will have three weeks to find the 61 Knesset members needed to obtain the majority, otherwise Israel could hold the third parliamentary elections in a year.