A Magar Mochot poll shows that if elections were held today, the chareidim would earn a combined 15 seats in Knesset. The poll was commissioned for 103FM Radio.
Poll results
· Likud down from 30 to 27 seats
· Yesh Atid up from 11 to 21 seats
· Bayit Yehudi up from 8 to 13 seats
· Machane Tzioni down from 24 to 10 seats
· Yisrael Beitenu up from 6 to 9 seats
· Kulanu down from 10 to 6 seats
· Meretz up from 5 to 6 seats
· Arab bloc remains the same with 13 seats
· Shas increases from 7 to 8 seats
· Yahadut Hatorah increases from 6 to 7 seats
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
5 Responses
Now if the chareidim can somehow Bridge their differences with the MO then they can include these parties.
Bayit Yehudi up from 8 to 13 seats
· Machane Tzioni down from 24 to 10 seats
· Yisrael Beitenu up from 6 to 9 seats
They should combine with Bennett and make him PM, he is a mentsch.
#2 Are you kidding? Wishy washy Bennett is the last person anyone should trust. He’s almost as bad as Lapid. Have you already forgotten his partnership with Lapid and when Lapid left him, he tried a religious party? He’s a cowardly indecisive person. Surprising that he leads Bayit Yehudi.
And by the way, Bayit Yehudi, according to Rav Ovadia Yosef zt”l should have been called Bayit Shel Goyim which would suit them better.
#2 Correct it will benefit all frum Jews.
#3 Quite EASY to forget that the UTJ/SHAS would not meet with Jewish Home during negotiation process and therefore threw Lapid at them. Short memory!!!
Given the options posed in the poll almost all chardalniks would poll for B”Y but come election time one or more additional options will inevitably arise (Tekuma, Yachad, etc.) and the chardalniks will bolt, as they have so often in the past, costing B”Y 3+ seats in the Knesset. So B”Y’s 13 seats are probably closer to 10.