Benjamin Netanyahu faces a critical test as President Isaac Herzog decides who will receive the mandate to form Israel's next government.

Yair Lapid, who leads the Yesh Atid party, added that the midterm results have ruined any chance of forming a unity government with Netanyahu.

Israel's election produced no governing majority, with Netanyahu's bloc winning 53 seats and opposition forces potentially reaching 67 alongside record-strength Arab parties.

Move comes after attorney general blocked Shin Bet call to interrogate politicians from Palestinian-led parties

President Isaac Herzog privately warned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and senior Israeli security officials that escalating violence by extremist Jewish activists against Palestinians in Yehuda and Shomron could trigger a dangerous security crisis and cause far-reaching damage to Israel and Jewish communities around the world.

Israel’s election ended without a clear winner after neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor Gadi Eisenkot failed to win enough seats to govern.

Benjamin Netanyahu's political rivals seized on Democrats' capture of the US Congress as proof that he had squandered generations

Israel's final election results confirmed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc lost its majority of parliamentary seats and that weeks of difficult negotiations among very different parties, from ultra-Orthodox Jewish to secular to Arab-led,