The hard-right Jewish Home, led by the charismatic Naftali Bennett, won between 11 and 12 seats.
At the moment, he's being challenged by two newcomers -- Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett.
Jewish Home, an extreme right party with a charismatic leader named Naftali Bennett, got 12 seats.
Yesh Atid took 19 seats and Jewish Home, led by Naftali Bennett, finished in fourth place with 12.
Both worked overtime trying to demonize Naftali Bennett and the Jewish Home Party.
The party - led by Mr Netanyahu's former chief-of-staff Naftali Bennett - has been recently challenging Likud-Beitenu's dominance on the right.
On the right, what is fascinating is between Likud and Naftali Bennett.
Naftali Bennett is the face of the next generation of religious nationalism.
Likud-Beitenu's dominance on the right has been challenged by Habayit Hayehudi, led by millionaire businessman Naftali Bennett - Mr Netanyahu's former chief-of-staff.
However, in Israel's highly fragmented proportional voting system, Mr Netanyahu is expected to seek a coalition government with other parties from the right, including Naftali Bennett's.
Such straight talk has brought Naftali Bennett much criticism from those inside and outside Israel who support the goal of a two-state solution (Israel and an independent Palestine living side-by-side).
In the new cabinet, it is believed Yair Lapid - a former TV presenter who leads Yesh Atid - will be finance minister and Jewish Home's Naftali Bennett, a high-tech millionaire, will be economic and trade minister.
The joint list lost to the resurgent, more right-wing, party Jewish Home, led by Naftali Bennett, and some votes even migrated to the center-left, which defied public opinion polls to become almost equal in size to the right-bloc.
At a makeshift theatre in the port of Tel Aviv, hundreds of young immigrants from Melbourne, the Five Towns, and other points in the Anglophone diaspora gathered recently to hear from the newest phenomenon in Israeli politics, Naftali Bennett.
Like many Israelis who identify with the left and centre, Mr Kaniuk is troubled not only by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policies and right-wing coalition, but also by the rise of Naftali Bennett, who the polls predict will be the breakout surprise of this coming election.
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