Supporters Of Israeli PM Netanyahu Celebrate His Return To Office As Result Of Just-Ended Parliamentary Election

An Israeli Jewish settler man waits to cast his vote in the West Bank town of Hebron, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. Israelis began trickling into polling stations Tuesday morning to cast their votes in a parliamentary election expected to return Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to office despite years of stalled peacemaking with the Palestinians and mounting economic troubles. Polls indicate about a dozen of 32 parties competing in Tuesday’s election have a chance of winning seats in the 120-member parliament. Most parties fall either into the right-wing-religious or center-left camp, and surveys indicate hard-line and ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties will command a majority. <AP Photo/Bernat Armangue>

Israeli Prime Minister and the leader of Likud Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets supporters as the Leader of Yisrael Beiteinu Avigdor Lieberman (L) standing beside him in Tel Aviv on Jan. 22, 2013. Exit polls conducted by three major Israeli broadcasters Tuesday evening showed that the right-wing union led by incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gained a narrow lead in the country’s early parliamentary elections. <Xinhua/Yin Dongxun>

Supporters of the Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrate in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party emerged as the largest faction in a hotly contested parliamentary election on Tuesday, positioning the hard-liner to serve a new term as prime minister, according to exit polls. Hebrew on the banner reads: “Strong Prime Minster, Strong Israel”, <AP Photo/Oded Balilty>

Supporters of Yair Lapid and his “Yesh Atid” party celebrate election results in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. The party, formed just over a year ago, out did forecasts by far and are predicted to capture as many as 19 seats, becoming parliament’s second-largest party, after Netanyahu’s Likud-Beiteinu bloc, which won 31, according to the exit polls.

Yair Lapid gestures as he delivers a speech at his “Yesh Atid” party in Tel-Aviv Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. <AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner>

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