Maariv Weekly Poll: 59% of Israelis support a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of prisoners and abductees, and the percentage of those who believe that Gantz is most suitable to assume the position of Prime Minister of Israel rises to 52%.

An Israeli public opinion poll conducted by the Maariv newspaper yesterday (Thursday) showed that if the Israeli general elections were held now, each of the party camp lists supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would obtain 43 seats (one seat more than the number of seats it obtained in this week’s poll). last), while the lists of the parties camp opposing him will obtain 67 seats (one seat less than the number of seats they obtained in last week’s poll). The coalition list between Hadash [the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality] and Ta’al [the Arab Movement for Change] and the Ra’am list [the United Arab List] will each get 5 seats, and the Balad list [the National Democratic Rally] will not be able to exceed the electoral threshold (3.25%).

According to the poll, the Likud Party list, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will get 18 seats, the “Official Camp” coalition list, headed by “War Cabinet” Minister Benny Gantz, will get 40 seats, and the “There is a Future” list, headed by Knesset member Yair Lapid, 14 seats.

The poll showed that the “Religious Zionism” party list, headed by Minister Bezalel Smotrich, will get 4 seats, the “Otzma Yehudit” [“Jewish Power”] list, headed by Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, will get 5 seats, and the Shas party list of Haredi Jews will get 5 seats. [Religious extremists] Easterners get 9 seats, while the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party list gets 7 seats, and the “Israel Our Home” party list, headed by Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman, gets 9 seats, and the Meretz party list gets 4 seats, while The Labor Party list, headed by Knesset member Merav Michaeli, will not be able to exceed the electoral threshold.

52% of respondents said that the head of the “Official Camp” coalition, Benny Gantz, is the most suitable to assume the position of Prime Minister of Israel, while only 26% of them said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the most suitable.

59% of respondents confirmed that they support a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of prisoners and abductees held by Hamas and other Palestinian factions, while 30% of them confirmed that they oppose any ceasefire without any relation to the issue of prisoners and abductees.

44% of respondents said that they support Israel’s continued presence in the Gaza Strip, after the end of the current war, while 41% of them said that they support Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and handing over its rule to another party, either international or Palestinian.

The survey included a sample of 515 people, representing all categories of the adult population in Israel, with a maximum error rate of 4.3%.