Reshet Bet Radio on Friday 19 Iyar released a poll that includes a new centrist party, with the latter emerging the big winner. The new party is comprised of former Likud and Kulanu officials including Gideon Saar, Moshe Ya’alon and Moshe Kahlon, earning 25 seats. The Likud party only earns 21 seats and Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party, which showed 20 seats in previous polls, is down to 13.
The poll was conducted by the Rafi Smith Institute.
Parenthesis indicates the number of seats in the current Knesset.
Right-Wing 39 (44)
Likud 21 (30)
Bayit Yehudi 10 seats (8)
Yisrael Beitenu 8 seats (6)
Chareidi parties 14 (13)
Yahadut Hatorah 8 seats (6)
Shas 6 seats (7)
Centrist parties 38
Kahlon, Ya’alon & Saar 25 (0)
Yesh Atid 13 (11)
Left-Wing 29 (42)
Machane Tzioni 11 (24)
Meretz 5 (5)
Arab Bloc 13 (13)
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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An Israeli poll?
Slow news day?
Israeli polls have been discredited millions of times
Ignoring the unreliability of Israeli polling (they do consistently have a left wing bias), its interesting. What it shows is the Likud and parties that broke away from Likud totally dominate Israeli politics, with over 2/3 of voters favor parties that have their origin in the old alliance of “Liberals” (which in 21st century-ese are actually conservatives) or “Revisionists”, or in the various religious parties. In the 1950s the left had 2/3 of the seats, and now it appears that the “right” has 3/4 of the seats. The article calls parties “centrist” even though they are basically Likud-niks who disagree with Netanyahu and prefer to challenge him by running their own list rather than in the somewhat rigged Likud primaries.