Netanyahu and Gantz tied on 32 seats each

With 92 percent of the votes counted, Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and Benny Gantz's Blue and White party are tied, according to a source in Israel's Central Elections Committee, Israel's Haaretz newspaper has reported.

According to the partial results, both parties each won 32 out of 120 Knesset seats. 

Netanyahu's bloc, made up of right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties, stands at 56 seats. The centre-left bloc, excluding the Joint List, which represents Palestinian citizens of Israel, has 43 seats.

Avigdor Lieberman, whose Yisrael Beiteinu party is projected nine seats, is expected to be the election's kingmaker. 

He repeated his support on Wednesday for a "broad liberal unity government," which would include Yisrael Beiteinu, Likud and the Blue and White party.