Benjamin Netanyahu emerged the clear winner in the Israeli elections on Thursday when his right-wing religious bloc secured 64 of the 120 seats in parliament after all the votes had been counted. The 73-year-old former prime minister’s Likud will be the largest party in the Knesset with 32 seats, well ahead of outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s Future Party on 24 seats, Israeli media reported. Lapid phoned Netanyahu to wish him “luck for the well-being of the Israeli people and the state of Israel.” The state of Israel took precedence above all political considerations, he tweeted after the …