Netanyahu seems on track to be Israel’s next prime minister

, Israel’s premier commando unit, did not simply model itself on Britain’s Special Air Service (), it also stole its motto: “Who dares wins”. It is a creed that has been tested almost to destruction by Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and an alumnus of the Israeli unit. After and 16 months in opposition, Mr Netanyahu seems to have won a parliamentary majority that will put him back in the prime minister’s office.As t went to press some 90% of votes cast in the election on November 1st had been counted. The tally shows that the group of right-wing and religious parties supporting are almost certain to have 62-65 of the 120 seats in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, having won just a few thousand more votes than their rivals. Mr Netanyahu owes his remarkable comeback to a surge in nationalist voting whipped up by his far-right allies in the Jewish Power party.