National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party was expected to win seven seats in the next Knesset, according to results published by the Central Election Committee (CEC) on Wednesday morning.
The Religious Zionist Party-Zehut (RZP), led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, was projected to win six seats, bringing the two far-right parties' combined total to around 13 seats.
Both parties are firmly part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc. Their combined projected total would represent a decrease from the 14 seats they won in the 2022 election, when they ran on a joint ticket.
Ben-Gvir campaigned on a security-focused platform and added former Likud MK Tally Gotliv to his party's slate, while RZP ran in a technical bloc with Zehut, led by Moshe Feiglin, to help the joint slate clear the electoral threshold.
Feiglin is now projected to return to the Knesset for the first time since 2015.
Responding to the exit poll projections released Tuesday night, Smotrich vowed that he would "not let the Arabs celebrate" after polls projected a strong showing for Ra'am and the Joint List.
"You are celebrating because you think you can stop the Judea and Samaria revolution," Smotrich told his supporters at his party's headquarters in Jerusalem. "We will not let you stop [it]."
'Terrible mistake': Ben-Gvir rejects possibility of serving in Unity government
Ben-Gvir responded to exit polls projecting his party would win six seats on Tuesday night, saying the evening was "still young.
“Regardless of the final results, we are very proud of our path, and especially of the major reforms that we promised the public, and we worked to realize them,” he said.
Ben-Gvir added that reports of a possible unity government with Gadi Eisenkot were “exactly the scenario we warned against,” calling it a “terrible mistake.”
Arab Israelis should not celebrate the results of the election exit polls, Religious Zionist Party chairman Bezalel Smotrich said early Wednesday morning, claiming they were celebrating because “they think they will succeed in stopping the revolution in Judea and Samaria."
"We will not allow you to stop [it]," he added.