An election poll released by i24 News on Sunday night 17 Adar shows Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is moving up in the polls following his congressional address. The poll was carried by the Geocartography Institute.
Likud: 26
Labor/The Movement: 21
Bayit Yehudi: 13
Yesh Atid: 12
Arab bloc: 12
Shas: 8
Yahadut Hatorah: 8
Kulanu: 8
Yisrael Beitenu: 7
Meretz: 5
Yachad: 0
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Still no change.
As long as the Right/Nationalist parties are willing to include the hareidim (with the price being a cancellation of penal sanctions for draft refusal), they have well over 61. If they refuse to compromise on conscription, either Labor can form a government (including Arabs) as long as their anti-Torah segments are willing to exempt Hareidim from conscription (or abolish conscription altogether). And otherwise there is no choice but a Right-Left coalition in agreement only on throwing massive numbers of hareidim in jail but without any common grounds on other issues.
it is hard to believe that Yachad: 0. I think something is wrong with the poll…
#2- Under the Israeli system, if a party gets less than four they get zero (in other words, three seats means no seats). As the polls tend to be biased in favor of elites (since respondents perceive pollsters as from the secular left-wing media, and try to give “right” answers), the poll is probably overrepresenting Yachad, and under representing Meretz.
#1 Are a one issue person or a broken tape recorder?