Poll: 83% of Israelis want state commission to probe Oct. 7 disaster

A new Channel 12 survey finds that 83% of the public wants a state commission of inquiry into the October 7 attack — which the government has repeatedly shot down so far — while 8% oppose it.

The poll also finds that 94% of opposition voters and 73% of coalition voters back such a panel being formed.

Meanwhile, the survey finds that if elections were held today, Likud would win 24 seats, National Unity 18, Yesh Atid 14, Yisrael Beytenu 13, The Democrats 13, Shas 9, Otzma Yehudit 8, United Torah Judaism 7, Ra’am 6, Religious Zionism 4 and Hadash-Ta’al 4.

This would leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parliamentary bloc at 52 of 120 Knesset seats, while the opposition parties that formed the previous government would hold 64 seats (Hadash-Ta’al is unaligned).

The poll also found that if former prime minister Naftali Bennett enters the race, a party led by him could win 23 seats, building a coalition of 70 seats, with Netanyahu’s bloc shrinking to 46.

In a head-to-head between the two, Bennett is seen as most qualified to be prime minister by 39% of voters, with 34% preferring Netanyahu. However, Netanyahu wins other popularity contests with Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot.

The poll was conducted today through online and phone polling, among 505 respondents representative of the population, and has a margin of error of 4.4%.