With hours remaining to the closure of voting stations, Labor party officials� began realizing they were falling behind and the word was given to send over 1 million SMS text messages to potential voters nationwide. Despite their best effort, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu managed to send a message of panic to voters and the right-wing camp apparently abandoned the Bayit Yehudi and Yachad parties, opting to vote Likud, which ultimately earned 30 seats.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)