Two Israeli Polls Show Divergent Political Landscapes Ahead of Elections
Translated & summarized from Kikar HaShabbat by baba
Two Israeli opinion polls released two weeks before elections show differing political outcomes. A Channel 13 poll shows Gadi Eisenkot's Yesh! party leading with 20 seats, while a Channel 14 poll places Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud first with 29 seats. The Channel 13 poll suggests a near-even split between potential government and opposition blocs, while Channel 14 indicates a significant advantage for Netanyahu's bloc. Several smaller parties, including those led by Yoaz Hendel and Ofer Winter, pass the electoral threshold in one poll but not the other.
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- A Channel 13 poll shows Gadi Eisenkot's Yesh! party leading with 20 seats, followed by Likud with 18.
- A Channel 14 poll places Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud first with 29 seats, and Yesh! second with 20.
- Naftali Bennett's Together party gains four seats in the Channel 14 poll, reaching 11 seats.
- The Channel 13 poll shows potential blocs at 51 seats for Netanyahu and 50 for the opposition.
- The Channel 14 poll projects Netanyahu's bloc with 62 seats versus 44 for the opposition.
- Two parties, led by Yoaz Hendel and Ofer Winter, pass the electoral threshold in one poll but not the other.
Two recent opinion polls released in Israel present contrasting pictures of the political landscape with elections just two weeks away. A Channel 13 poll indicates the Yesh! party, led by Gadi Eisenkot, leading with 20 seats, followed by Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud with 18. Naftali Bennett's Together party garners 12 seats, while Religious Zionism-Identity, led by Bezalel Smotrich and Moshe Feiglin, receives 6. Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit secures 8 seats. Among the Haredi parties, United Torah Judaism, headed by Yaakov Asher, gets 8 seats, and Shas, led by Aryeh Deri, receives 7. In the center-left bloc, Yair Golan's Democrats and Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu each obtain 9 seats. The Arab parties see the Joint List (Hadash, Ta'al, Balad) with 9 seats and Ra'am, led by Mansour Abbas, with 6. Notably, the reservists and economic party led by Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zehlikha passes the electoral threshold with 4 seats, as does Ofer Winter's Am Israel party, also with 4 seats. The Channel 13 poll shows Netanyahu's bloc with 51 seats and the opposition bloc with 50, with Arab parties collectively holding 15 seats.
In contrast, a Channel 14 poll places the Likud as the largest party with 29 seats, with Eisenkot's Yesh! following at 20. Bennett's Together party shows a significant jump, gaining four seats from the previous Channel 14 poll to reach 11. Shas receives 10 seats, and the Joint List 9. Yair Golan's Democrats and United Torah Judaism each get 8 seats, as does Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit. The Religious Zionism and Identity party secures 7 seats. Yisrael Beiteinu and Ra'am are at the bottom with 5 seats each. The Channel 14 poll projects Netanyahu's bloc with 62 seats against the opposition and left-wing bloc's 44 seats, with Arab parties totaling 14 seats. In this poll, neither Hendel and Zehlikha's party nor Winter's Am Israel party pass the electoral threshold.
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