Zionist Union party co-leaders Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni arrive to deliver a statement in the party's election headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 18, 2015.

March 19, 2015
VOA News 


Isaac Herzog, (click here) whose Zionist Union finished second in Israel's parliamentary elections, said Thursday the party will not join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's next coalition government.

Netanyahu's Likud party won 30 seats in the 120-member body, beating out the Zionist Union's 24 and putting the prime minister in position to cobble together a government and serve a fourth term.

Herzog told Israel's Army Radio that the Zionist Union will be an opposition force to "challenge a narrow right-wing government."...