Netanyahu: 'There will be no unity government with Labor'

As he cast his ballot in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would phone leader of the right-wing Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett for talks on the formation of a coalition government following the parliamentary polls.

"Bennett is a major partner in any government I will form," Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud party, said.

Netanyahu stressed that he has no plans to form a coalition government with the Zionist Union, an alliance between the centrist Labor and Hatnuah parties led by MK Isaac Herzog and former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni respectively.

"There will be no unity government with Labor," he said. "I will form a nationalist government."