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January 21, 2013
8:10 pm

Screenshot from the “Elections 2013 - vote and Influence” app (photo credit: Courtesy)

An app to put election pollsters in their place

You can keep track of the election results online in real time, and compare those figures to what the polls have been predicting

By David Shamah

January 18, 2013
7:39 am

A man hangs a huge poster with an image of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overlooking the Ayalon freeway in Tel Aviv on Thursday (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Final newspaper polls give right wing narrowest lead of race

Four days before elections, support for Likud-Beytenu is lower than ever; 15% of voters remain undecided

January 17, 2013
1:44 pm

On the rise. Bathers at the Dead Sea (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Drowning in numbers

Final polling statistics pour off the presses; Netanyahu puts Obama in his place; and borderline MKs take it all in stride

By Ron Friedman

January 16, 2013
10:31 pm

A worker prepares ballot boxes for the upcoming Israeli election, at a warehouse in Shoham, near Tel Aviv, January 8, 2013. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

New poll shows Likud-Beytenu continuing to slide

Channel 10 survey has ruling party slipping to 32 seats, Labor receiving 16, Jewish Home 14, and 11 seats each for Shas and Yesh Atid

By Adiv Sterman

January 14, 2013
8:16 pm

A construction site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, December 2012 (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

Poll: Israelis say defund settlements to balance budget

Nearly 82% of respondents from across political spectrum agree that funds for West Bank development should be cut first

By Asher Zeiger

January 11, 2013
1:25 pm

An Israeli woman looks at a flyer for Tzipi Livni's Hatnua party, Jerusalem, December 23, 2012 (photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Latest polls confirm high level of undecided voters, indicate fall in support for Tzipi Livni

Echoing The Times of Israel’s pre-election poll, Maariv says 25% of the electorate has yet to make up its mind ahead of January 22 vote

By Stephan Miller

January 10, 2013
5:00 pm

Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Poll puts religious fringe party in Knesset with four seats

Bizarre Israel Radio survey projects right-wing bloc to win vast margin in upcoming elections, but doesn’t publish full figures

By Ilan Ben Zion

January 9, 2013
3:46 pm

Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk in front of campaign posters for the Likud-Beytenu list in Jerusalem, this week. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Traditional Jews vote Likud-Beytenu, while the Orthodox choose Bennett

Times of Israel survey shows clear patterns of voting behavior, depending on level of observance and ethnic heritage

By Stephan Miller

January 4, 2013
11:41 am

A man walking by a booth for Jewish Home in Jerusalem in December. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Friday polls show Jewish Home surge may have been an outlier

Right-wing party seen getting 13-14 seats, and not 18 predicted by Israel Radio poll a day earlier

By Joshua Davidovich

January 3, 2013
6:57 pm

Casting their lot. A bride and groom vote in the last general elections before getting married, February 10, 2009. (Photo credit: by Edi Israel/Flash90)

Poll warning: Believe the trends, be wary of the specifics

Consumed obsessively in these heady pre-election days, Israel’s political surveys are hampered by small samples, unasked questions, and possible pollster conflicts of interests. Best to think of them, experts say, as ‘informational entertainment’

By Raphael Ahren

December 31, 2012
3:02 am

Israeli and Palestinian peace activists marching outside Jerusalem's Old City July 15, 2011 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Two-thirds of Israelis support peace with Palestinians that ensures security, polls find

67% of respondents say they would support two-state solution based on the 1967 borders, with land swaps and a demilitarized Palestine

By Adiv Sterman

December 29, 2012
1:06 am

Labor leader Shelly Yachimovich (left) and Hatnua head Tzipi Livni at a conference in November. (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Center-left parties consider working as a bloc against Netanyahu after elections

Livni says she’ll try to form a ‘front’ of like-minded parties; Labor and Yesh Atid contemplate joining with her to decide as one on whether to participate in a Likud-Beytenu coalition

By Times of Israel staff

December 28, 2012
6:41 am

Ex-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a press conference in Jerusalem last month (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud-Beytenu declines to 33 seats in new poll

Yedioth shows narrowing of gap between right and center-left, while Maariv poll has right-wing parties holding strong