50% of Israelis believe that Israel should launch a preemptive attack against Iran, while 30% said that “we should wait for an Iranian response and then attack it,” and 20% do not have an answer to such a question, according to a poll published by the Maariv newspaper today, Friday.

59% said they opposed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to dismiss Defense Minister Yoav Galant from his post, while 29% supported the decision and 14% said they had no opinion on the matter.

If general elections for the Knesset were held now, the Likud party would win 24 seats, the National Union 19, Yesh Atid 15, Yisrael Beiteinu 14, the Democratic Party 13, Shas 10, Otzma Yehudit 8, United Torah Judaism 7, Hadash-Ta'al 5, the Joint List 5, and the Religious Zionism party would not pass the electoral threshold.

These results mean that the strength of the coalition parties, without Religious Zionism and a party headed by Gideon Sa'ar, will be 49 seats, compared to 61 seats for the Zionist parties in the opposition, and 10 seats for the Arab parties.

If a party headed by Naftali Bennett and another party headed by Galant participate in the new elections, the party headed by Bennett will obtain 23 seats, most of them at the expense of the Zionist parties in the opposition: Likud drops to 19 seats, the National Camp 11, Yesh Atid 11, Shas 10, the Democratic Party 9, Yisrael Beiteinu 7, Otzma Yehudit 7, a party headed by Galant 6, the Arab Front for Change 5, the Joint List 5, and Religious Zionism does not exceed the electoral threshold.

These results indicate that the strength of the Zionist parties in the opposition with Bennett and Galant's parties will be 67 seats, compared to 43 seats for the coalition parties, and 10 seats for the Arab parties.