That leaves Yehadut HaTorah as the only Haredi party and makes it a lot easier for a center-left coalition to make a deal.
The saving grace for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Likud is that the investigation of alleged large-scale fraud in Yisrael Beitenu could swing votes to the Likud and put Netanyahu ahead of Labor-Livni.
The party that receives the highest number of votes, almost automatically gets the first crack at forming a coalition.
In the elections five years ago, the Kadima party, headed by Livni, won one more seat than the Likud. Livni, the same Livni who called Netanyahu “impotent” last week, was not able to form a government, leaving the task for Bibi.
There is another possibility. Ben-Ari and Rabbi Amsalem can drop out of the race, but only if someone can deflate their egos.