Bennett considered most unifying candidate for PM — poll

10 August 2024, 3:03 pm 5 Edit

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, July 26, 2024. (GPO); Opposition Leader Yair Lapid at the Knesset, Jerusalem, July 22, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); head of the National Unity party Benny Gantz at a press conference at the Knesset on July 24, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the annual Cyber Week, at Tel Aviv University, June 25, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

A Channel 12 news poll finds former prime minister Naftali Bennett is the most unifying figure among politicians who could be candidates for the premiership at the next election.

According to the poll, 52 percent of respondents say Bennett is unifying, compared to 28% who say he is divisive, and 20% who don’t know.

Fifty-one percent of respondents say Benny Gantz is a unifier, compared to 35% who say he is divisive, and 14% who don’t know.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (13/64%) and Yair Lapid (36/53%) are considered to be more divisive than unifying, according to the poll.