A new poll conducted by the Midgam Institute, headed by Dr. Mina Tzemach and Mano Geva, states: Despite the preliminary assumptions, the chareidi and religious public does not fully support Ze’ev Elkin in his bid in the Jerusalem mayoral race.

Two months after the previous survey examined the candidacy of Mayor of the wake of Ofir Berkowitz against Moshe Leon among the Zionist public asked the Awakening (Hisorarus) movement to examine his candidacy against Minister Ze’ev Elkin of Likud, whose name came up as interested to transfer his address to Jerusalem in order to compete for its leadership.

According to a poll conducted by Mina Tzemach and Mano Geva, which included the chareidi public this time, the question was asked who the Jerusalemites should lead the capital of Israel for the next five years: Minister of Environmental Protection and Jerusalem Ze’ev Elkin or Chairman of the Hisorarus, Ofir Berkowitz.

The sample included five hundred people from different populations in the city, with Berkowitz with the upper hand with 50.9% support versus 49.1% for Minister Elkin.

According to the religious definition of the respondents, the assumption is that all the chareidim will vote for Elkin, with 8% supporting Mayor Berkowitz, while Elkin gets 31% and over 40% have yet to decide who to vote for. It also shows that among the religious Zionist public, Elkin does not receive sweeping support when 19% of the religious public supports Berkowitz for mayor (up from 15% of a survey conducted two months ago at the same research institute against Leon). Elkin also enjoys a 31% while 37% were undecided.

It is also clear that among the secular and traditional public, Berkowitz clearly wins over Elkin, while among the secular public 53% support Berkowitz, compared to only 8% for Elkin and among the traditional public, 32% support Berkowitz, as opposed to a mere 16% for Elkin.

In the poll, 43 percent of the non-chareidi residents of the city did not know Berkowitz, while today it is only 26 percent.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)