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Fri 12 Jan 2024 5:29 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli Poll: Anti-Netanyahu party camp wins election and 30% of Israelis believe Israel lost the war.

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 44 seats (two seats less than the number of seats it obtained in last week’s poll). ), while the lists of the parties camp opposing him will obtain 66 seats (two seats more 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 16 seats, the “Official Camp” list headed by Knesset member Benny Gantz will get 39 seats, and the “There is a Future” list headed by Knesset member Yair Lapid will get 13 seats.


The “Religious Zionism” party list, headed by Minister Bezalel Smotrich, gets 4 seats, while the “Otzma Yehudit” list [“Jewish Power”] headed by Minister Itamar Ben Gvir gets 8 seats, and the Shas party list of Haredi [religious extremist] Eastern Jews gets 8 seats. 9 seats, the Haredi United Torah Judaism Party list gets 7 seats, the “Israel Our Home” party list headed by Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman gets 10 seats, the Meretz Party list gets 4 seats, while the Labor Party list will not be able to exceed the electoral threshold.


62% of respondents said that Israel has achieved victory in the war against Hamas in Gaza, while 30% of them confirmed that it has lost the war.


51% of the survey participants 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 29% of them said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the most suitable.


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%.

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Israeli Poll: Anti-Netanyahu party camp wins election and 30% of Israelis believe Israel lost the war.