Channel 14 Poll Editor Slams "Mind Engineering" After Election Discrepancies
Translated & summarized from Ice by baba
Shlomo Filber, editor of Channel 14's mandate polls, criticized Israeli pollsters for significant election forecast errors, calling it "mind engineering." He claimed major institutes missed Likud voter sampling by 30%, impacting global leaders and the Israeli economy. The election results showed no bloc achieving the 61 mandates needed to form a government.
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- Channel 14 poll editor Shlomo Filber criticized Israeli pollsters for major election forecast errors.
- Filber claimed major research bodies missed Likud voter sampling by 30% over four years.
- He argued polling inaccuracies constitute "mind engineering" with broad societal impact.
- The 26th Knesset election results left no bloc with the 61 mandates needed for a government.
- Netanyahu's bloc won 53 mandates, Izencott's bloc 48, and Arab parties 19.
Shlomo Filber, editor of Channel 14's mandate polls, has criticized Israeli research institutes and pollsters for significant discrepancies between their election forecasts and the actual results of the 26th Knesset elections. Filber argued on his X account that the public discussion is focused on the wrong issue, the accuracy of individual polls, rather than a broader problem.
He claimed that major Israeli research bodies missed by 30% in their sampling of voters for the Likud party, the largest ruling party, over the past four turbulent years. This assertion about the extent of the error across all research institutes was not independently verified in the article.
Filber extended his criticism, stating that this ongoing polling error has had far-reaching consequences, influencing global leaders, senior officials, politicians, security and policy research bodies, the finance and advertising industries, the entire economy, and Israeli society. He suggested this was not just a matter of pollster accuracy but an "earthquake" concerning the "mind engineering" of Israeli citizens.
Filber's remarks come amid ongoing reactions to the election polls and results. Channel 12 commentator Amit Segal had previously described the situation as a "Yom Kippur for most pollsters," while Channel 13 pollster Shmuel Rosner explained that Likud's support was higher than predicted, with other parties in its bloc weakening.
The final vote count, excluding double envelopes, indicated that Netanyahu's bloc secured 53 mandates, the Izencott bloc received 48, and Arab parties garnered 19. This outcome leaves no bloc with the 61 mandates required to form a government.
