Israel, elections: Nethanyahu's coalition has the advantage according to exit poll

'Bibi is back', 'Bibi is the king of Israel'.

These are just some of the slogans chanted by a cheering crowd of supporters of the former Israeli prime minister and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who took to the streets to celebrate the electoral victory of the Likud leader who, according to various exit polls, won at least 61 seats to the Knesset.

'' We won! '' Shout the protesters hugging each other, as reported by the Times of Israel.

The exit polls of Canale 11 and Canale 13 give the right-hand block of Benyamin Neyanyahu in the lead with 62 seats in the Knesset (out of 120) against 54 in the Yair Lapid block.

According to the same exit polls, the religious Zionist Itamar Ben Gvir would have obtained 14 seats, the centrist Benny Gantz 11. The religious of Shas 10 deputies, 6 the Labor, 6 the left of Meretz, 5 the Islamist party of Mansour Abbas, the nationalist layman Avigdor Lieberman 4.