A pair of fresh TV surveys predict a deadlock after the upcoming November 1 elections, with both giving the right-wing religious bloc supporting Benjamin Netanyahu 60 seats — one short of a majority — versus 56 for the bloc of parties opposed to him.
A Channel 12 news survey gives Netanyahu’s Likud 31 seats; Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid 24; Religious Zionism, 14; National Unity, 11; Shas 8; United Torah Judaism 7; Yisrael Beytenu 6; Labor 6; Meretz 5; Hadash-Ta’al 4; and Ra’am 4.
Ayelet Shaked’s Jewish Home party fails to cross the 3.25% electoral threshold, getting 1.9%, while the Palestinian nationalist Balad gets 1.3%.
A poll by Channel 13 news gives Likud 32 seats; Yesh Atid 26; Religious Zionism 13; National Unity 11; Shas 8; United Torah Judaism 7; Labor 5; Meretz 5; Yisrael Beytenu 5; Ra’am 4; and Hadash-Ta’al 4.
This survey gives Balad 2.2%, still below the threshold, while Jewish Home gets 1.5%.
The Channel 12 poll was conducted by the Midgam Institute among 507 respondents, with a margin of error of 4.4%.
The Channel 13 poll was conducted among 801 respondents, by Camil Fuchs in the Jewish community and Yousef Makladeh in the Arab community. It has a 3.5% margin of error.
It's not (only) about you.
Supporting The Times of Israel isn’t a transaction for an online service, like subscribing to Netflix. The ToI Community is for people like you who care about a common good: ensuring that balanced, responsible coverage of Israel continues to be available to millions across the world, for free.
Sure, we'll remove all ads from your page and you'll unlock access to some excellent Community-only content. But your support gives you something more profound than that: the pride of joining something that really matters.
Join the Times of Israel Community
Join our Community
Already a member? Sign in to stop seeing this
You're a dedicated reader
We’re really pleased that you’ve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month.
That’s why we started the Times of Israel - to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world.
So now we have a request. Unlike other news outlets, we haven’t put up a paywall. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community.
For as little as $6 a month you can help support our quality journalism while enjoying The Times of Israel AD-FREE, as well as accessing exclusive content available only to Times of Israel Community members.
Thank you,
David Horovitz, Founding Editor of The Times of Israel
Join Our Community
Join Our Community
Already a member? Sign in to stop seeing this