Right now the polls giver her 18 seats if she can get 25 with Lapid & Livni getting 10 each thats 45. It is also possible Kadima might get 1-2 seats which just adds to the lefts numbers. Based on current polls Netanyahu & Bennet between them could get 48. The Between them Shas & UTJ will get 15-16 seats and they will work with anybody and as long as the majority of the coalition are secular parties he will accept the haredi if it will make up the numbers. Either way both left and right will be able to form a coalition based on those numbers and I think its a foregone conclusion that if Shelly can get the minimum number to form a coalition Peres will go with her. So if Netanyahu mostly doesn't get at least 40 seats and Bennet 14-15 then the next government could be leftist one made up of religious opportunists, far left idealists and a PM who has no senior political experience and who wants to borrow big.

How can any sane Jew think it's a good idea to trim Israel's waist to 9 miles???? The Israeli left is for Jews with a death wish.

which means in plain English, we will be in deep sh*t.