A TNS Teleseker poll conducted for Walla News shows the Likud holding at 26 seats. Bayit Yehudi seems stuck, unable to climb back to 16 and 18 seats, holding once again at a mere 12 seats.
The poll indicates the media’s attack against Mrs. Sara Netanyahu which has become known as “Bottle Gate” http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/283775/latest-likud-scandal-the-money-from-bottle-returns.html did not hurt Likud in the eyes of voters.
(Parentheses: Results from the poll conducted on January 29th)
Likud: 26 (27)
Labor/The Movement: 23 (26)
Bayit Yehudi: 12 (12)
Arab bloc: 12 (12)
Yesh Atid: 10 (8)
Kulanu: 8 (7)
Yahadut Hatorah: 7 (7)
Shas: 7 (7)
Yisrael Beitenu: 7 (6)
Meretz: 4 (4)
Yachad: 4 (4)
The right-wing leads as far as assembling a coalition. The left-wing has failed to pull votes from the right-wing during the past six weeks.
Who is best suited to serve as prime minister?
Netanyahu: 52% (49%)
Herzog: 31% (27%)
Do not know/would not respond: 17% (23%)
Both earned about 3% more than in the last survey while the “undecided/refuse to respond” dropped from 23% to 17.1%.
Would you like to see Binyamin Netanyahu continue serving as PM?
38.5%: not interested at all in seeing him continue
11.8%: not interested in seeing him continue
26.3%: very interested in seeing him continue
18.8%: interested in seeing him continue
Reminder did not respond to this question.
500 people were questioned representing a cross section of the adult Israeli population. The margin of error is two seats.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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2 Responses
1. The “Right”, meaning Likud, Bayit Yehudi and Yisrael Beiteinu, taken as a group are doing slightly better than last time.
2. The Hareidim have the same number of seats, but a chunk of them are now the right-wing hardal oriented Yachad who probably could only ally with the “Right”
3. The “in between” or “center” that was dominated by the anti-religious Yesh Atid, will now be dominated by Kulanu, which is basically a Likud clone focuses on domestic issues.
4. Based on the usual bias of Israeli polling, Yachad has a good chance of passing the threshold, and Meretz might disappear (wasting several left-wing seats in the process).
it would be best for the frum if herzog would be pm for a little bit to calm down the arrogant right ie france har habais