Exactly two weeks before the day of the 24th Knesset election, which will be held on March 23, a poll of 13 seats in the news was published tonight (Tuesday) in collaboration with Camille Fox. According to the poll, for the first time, a new Tikva party led by Gideon Saar is falling below 10 seats.
Compared to Saar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party still continue to lead safely with 29 seats, while in second place is the future of Yair Lapid with 20 seats. Naftali Bennett’s right, which is emerging as the language of the scales in the upcoming elections, is the third and final party to achieve a double-digit number of seats with 11.
New hope, as mentioned, with 9 seats, while the joint list wins 8 seats. Yisrael Beiteinu headed by Avigdor Lieberman stands for 7 seats, as is Torah Judaism led by Moshe Gafni. Aryan Deri’s Shas and the Labor Party, led by Merav Michaeli, each won 6 seats. The list of religious Zionism by Bezalel Smutritz and Itamar Ben Gvir wins 5 seats.
At the bottom of the list are Blue and White, led by Bnei Gantz, Mansour Abbas and Meretz, led by Nitzan Horowitz, with each of the parties holding four seats. The new economic party, with Prof. Yaron Zelicha, wins only 1.7% of the vote, according to the survey, and does not pass the blocking percentage.
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The bloc map continues to show a majority for the “Netanyahu replacement” bloc, with a future, a new, common hope, Yisrael Beiteinu, Labor, Meretz and Blue and White together hold 58 seats. The “Netanyahu bloc”, which includes the Likud, the ultra-Orthodox parties and the religious Zionist party, stands at 47 seats. Right and Ra’am, at this point, are the swinging parties.
On the question of suitability for prime minister, the respondents still believe that Netanyahu is the most suitable for the position with 35% suitability, immediately followed by Lapid with 20%, Saar with 13% and Bennett with 12%. When Netanyahu is taken out of the equation, Lapid rises to 26%, Bennett to 23%, Saar to 20%, and about 18% believe that none of them is worthy of the position of prime minister. In addition, 53% of respondents claimed that there is no chance that they will change their vote from today until election day.