When it comes to the economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis, 62% of Israelis think that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing a bad job, and 49% think he is doing a bad job when it comes to handling the health crisis itself, a poll by Channel 12 News conducted Monday reveals.
Respondents were asked for whom they would vote if an election were held right now, and the results gave Netanyahu's Likud party 37 seats, compared to the 40 projected for his party in a poll from June 28.
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The poll results predicted 15 seats for the Joint Arab List, 14-15 for Yesh Atid-Telem, and only 11 seats for Blue and White.
Yamina was projected to secure 11 mandates, up from the eight projected for it in June. Shas would win nine seats, and Yisrael Beytenu would drop from nine in June to eight seats. United Torah Judaism would keep its seven seats, and Meretz would gain a seat, winning seven.
The poll projected that Labor, Habayit Hayehudi, Derech Eretz, and Gesher would not pass the minimum electoral threshold.
Respondents were asked whether they trusted or did not trust the government's handling of the second wave of coronavirus, and 59% said they did not trust how the government was handling the new outbreak. Another 30% said they "mostly" trusted the government's handling of the second wave, and only 7% expressed great trust in the government.
Respondents were also asked, "How do you rate Prime Minister Netanyahu's handling of the public health aspect of the corona crisis?" Nearly half (49%) called Netanyahu's management "bad," compared to 36% who said the prime minister was handling the crisis badly in a poll conducted on June 28. Another 46% said Netanyahu was handling the health crisis well, compared to 58% who said the same in June.
When asked about Netanyahu's management of the economic crisis that has resulted from the corona epidemic, 62% of respondents said he was doing "badly," compared to 58% who felt he was handling the economic crisis badly in June, whereas 33% said Netanyahu was handling the economic crisis "well."
The Channel 12 poll was conducted by the Midgam Institute among a representative sample of 505 Israelis age 18 and over. It has a margin of error of 4.4%.
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