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By <a class="authorinfo" href="http://abcnews.go.com/author/molly_hunter" id="mollyhunter" rel="author">MOLLY HUNTER</a><br />
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures to supporters at party headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 18, 2015.<span class="caption_credit"> Nir Elias/Reuters</span>
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It appeared early today that Israeli Prime Minister <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/world/prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu.htm" id="ramplink_Benjamin Netanyahu_" target="_blank">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> scored an even clearer victory than Tuesday night's exit polls suggested.
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With some 99.5 percent of votes counted early today, his <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/world/likud-israel.htm" id="ramplink_Likud_" target="_blank">Likud</a>
 party appeared to have earned 30 out of the Israeli parliament's 120 
seats. The opposition Zionist Union appeared to wind up with just 24 
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Recent polling showed Netanyahu trailing.
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"Against all odds, we achieved a great victory for the Likud," Netanyahu
 told supporters even before final election results were in, according 
to the Associated Press. "I am proud of the people of Israel, who in the
 moment of truth knew how to distinguish between what is important and 
what is peripheral, and to insist on what is important."
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Netanyahu tacked hard to the right in recent days. And what many saw as 
desperate, hail-Mary moves to get that far right vote paid off 
domestically.
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However, the promises he made in this pre-election blitz have put him on
 a direct collision course with Washington. He promised settlement 
expansion in Israel's occupied territories and backed away from 
long-stated international goal of arriving at a two-state solution to 
settle differences with the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/palestine.htm" id="ramplink_Palestinians_" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>.
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Now, the coalition-building will start, and Netanyahu said he's already 
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 Zionist Union party co-leadesr Isaac Hezcog, right, and Tzipi Livni 
greet supporters at the party's election headquarters in Tel Aviv, March
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Meanwhile, Netanyahu's biggest rival, center-left Isaac Herzog of 
Zionist Union, released this statement Wednesday morning: "This is not 
an easy morning for us and for those that believe in our way. We will 
lead the fight, together with our partners in Knesset, for the values we
 believe in."
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Netanyahu is now on track to become the country's longest serving PM -- a
 title currently held by the country's founding father, David 
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