Dramatic results are seen in the election poll commissioned by Israel’s Channel 1 News, released on Monday evening the eve of 15 Sivan. According to the poll, the ruling party today, Likud headed by Binyamin Netanyahu receives only 22 seats, a significant drop from today’s 30 seats.
Yair Lapid and his Yesh Atid party are smiling however, pulling 20 seats, a significant increase from the 11 seats it holds today in the 20th Knesset.
The results – number in parenthesis represent the current 20th Knesset
Likud 22 (30)
Yesh Atid 20 (11)
Arab Bloc 13 (13)
Bayit Yehudi 13 (8)
Moshe Ya’alon 10 (If he runs under a new party)
Machane Tzioni 9 (24)
Yisrael Beitenu 9 (6)
Yahadut Hatorah 7 (6)
Kulanu 6 (10)
Shas 6 (7)
Meretz 5 (5)
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Yesterday YWN posted a story about Gafne reversing Yesh atid’s cuts (http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/432593/gafne-credited-with-pushing-nis-tens-of-millions-for-yeshivos.html#comment-1188991)
I posted then:
“I’m more interested in how the general chiloni public will react. From their point of view funding was stopped as a direct expression of the will of many voters who voted for yesh otid. I would therefore understand if they view the eradication of this gezeiro in a cynical way. I.e. they’ll say that the chareidim, instead of accepting the fact that many voters and contributors to the states finances don’t want yeshivos to be supported, and making some sort of compromise in recognition of this, instead they simply grabbed as much as they could as soon as the crazy israeli coalition system tipped back in their favour.”
Surprise, mainstream voters (from likud) now seem to have moved to yesh atid