A day after a poll showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud potentially losing power if elections were held, he told Israel Hayom the projections would not materialize.
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"I am not concerned over polls," Netanyahu said. "I always lose in the polls but win when people go to the polls," he continued.
The Channel 13 News survey shows that if Yamina, Yesh Atid and Yisrael Beytenu band together, they could form a 61-seat coalition, establishing a government that excluded Likud and the Haredi parties, thus ending Netanyahu's 11-year premiership, which together with is 3-year term in 1990s, is the longest in Israeli history.
Netanyahu said that Yamina chief Naftali Bennett voted to topple the government over its response to the coronavirus pandemic, despite being on the Right ideologically. "He should decide where he stands; it's one thing to vote to dissolve the Knesset, but why join a no-confidence motion?" Netanyahu asked rhetorically.
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