Two separate surveys from Israel’s leading news channels find about seven in 10 Israelis want to see Netanyahu in a televised preelection debate with leading rival Isaac Herzog of the Zionist Union.
A Channel 2 poll found fully 71% were in favor of the idea, 19% were against and 10% said they didn’t know.
Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog (left), with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2013 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
Channel 10, meanwhile, found that 69.7% want to see the two go head-to-head, while 17% said they were not for the idea and 13.4% didn’t know.
Netanyahu has said he would only agree to a debate after his scheduled March 3 address to the US Congress, and would only debate Zionist Union leaders Tzipi Livni or Isaac Herzog, Channel 2 reported.
The Channel 2 survey sampled 405 Israeli Jews and had a margin of error of 4.8%. Channel 10 did not release its methodology.
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