Yet another poll asking respondents how they would vote if elections were held today places Yair Lapid and his Yesh Atid party ahead of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his Likud party.
The poll was released on Friday, 26 Adar, conducted by Panels Politics including 572 respondents representing a cross-section of Israeli voters. The margin of error is +/-4.5%.
Yesh Atid emerges the largest party once again, with 28 seats as compared to Likud with only 25 seats, dropping five seats from its current 30 while Yesh Atid gains 17 from its current eleven seats.
Parenthesis is party’s current number in the 20th Knesset
Bayit Yehudi 13 (8)
Arab Bloc 13 (13)
Machane Tzioni 10 (24)
Kulanu 7 (10)
Yahadut Hatorah 7 (6)
Shas 6 (7)
Yisrael Beitenu 6 (6)
Meretz 5 (5)
The poll included satisfaction rating for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
59% disapprove
35% approve
33% not at all pleased
9% very pleased
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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One Response
1. Israeli polls are infamously unreliable (probably due to the large “off the grid” Hareidi and Arab populations, and proportional representation.
2. Based on the poll, it appears that most of Likud’s losses are to Bayit Yehudi, and that Yesh Atid’s gains come at the expense of the left-wing “Machna Zioni” (a.k.a. labor). Thus the “big” story is that the left-wing socialist party of David Ben Gurion and Gold Meir is being surplanted by the centrist, pro-capitalist Yesh Atid.