Isaac Herzog 

Israel’s opposition leader has conceded defeat in the country’s election.

Isaac Herzog, who heads the centre-left Zionist Union, said he had called prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to offer congratulations for his election victory.

Netanyahu’s Likud party appeared to have earned 30 out of parliament’s 120 seats and was in a position to build a coalition with nationalist, religious, and ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies. The Zionist Union won 24 seats.