Likud takes lead with 24% of counted votes

In the latest count, Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party leads in Israel's Knesset election with 24.4 percent of votes, according to Israel's election commission.

The Zionist Union, led by Isaac Herzog, comes in second position with 19 percent of the votes, the commission was quoted by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth as adding after counting 57 percent of ballot boxes in polling stations across Israel.