Israel's Netanyahu Tweets Election 'Victory' Despite Tied Exit Polls

As millions of Israelis voted Tuesday for parliamentary selection and their next prime minister, exit polls suggested that the election between current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and politician Isaac Herzog was too close to call.

According to The Guardian, two exit polls showed the parties tied with 27 seats each, while a third poll showed that Netanyahu's political party was leading the vote with a one seat advantage.

Despite preliminary exit polls reporting that the race was too close, Netanyahu took to Twitter on Tuesday to say that his political party, the Likud, celebrated a "great victory" after the election.

"Against all odds: a great victory for Likud, a great victory for the national camp led by Likud, a great victory for the people of Israel," Netanyahu said on his official Twitter account.

Likud minister Silvan Shalom followed up on Netanyahu's comments, telling The Guardian: "The results were a very clear yes to prime minister Netanyahu and Likud to carry on leading. His results were very strong and beyond all the polls taken in the last few weeks. I know very many Israelis came out to vote Likud to keep the national camp and right wing in power and not allow the left wing take power."

In response to Netanyahu's claims, the Herzog's political party, the Zionist Union, accused the Likud of "misleading" the Israeli people.

"The rightist bloc has shrunk. Everything is possible until the real results are in, when we can know which parties passed the electoral threshold and which government we can form. All the spins and statements are premature. A negotiating team has been formed in an effort to form a government led by Herzog," the statement read.