It happened in 1981, when Shimon Peres rushed to be anointed “the next prime minister of Israel”; in 1996, when Israel went to sleep with PM Peres and woke up with PM Netanyahu; in 2009, when Tzipi Livni declared that “the people have chosen Kadima, and no one will deny them their choice”; in 2015, when Netanyahu garnered six crucial Knesset seats overnight; and once again on Tuesday night, after Channel 12’s exit poll gave Benny Gantz a four-seat advantage over Likud as well as a 60-60 tie between the two political blocs.