{"id":16099,"date":"2019-04-10T21:18:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T04:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16099"},"modified":"2019-04-10T21:18:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T04:18:04","slug":"israels-2019-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16099","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s 2019 election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Benjamin Netanyahu was on course to secure a record fifth term as Israeli Prime Minister after his main election rival conceded defeat on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">After a dramatic finish to a tightly-fought race, former army chief Benny Gantz accepted that Netanyahu had won. &#8220;We are all democratic, we all accept the decision of the nation,&#8221; Gantz said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">With more than 97% of the vote counted, according to Israeli media, a bloc led by Netanyahu&#8217;s Likud party would secure 65 seats in the 120-strong Knesset. A center-left bloc led by Gantz&#8217;s Blue and White party, supported by the Arab parties, would only muster 55 seats.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Netanyahu was on course to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16100,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099\/revisions\/16100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}