On the Ballot

Israel Hayom poll sees Likud maintain the lead with 28 Knesset seats, but various mergers, splits and political newcomers are likely to see an untold number of precious votes squandered.  

Channel 12 News poll finds that 61% of Israelis would rather see the Haredi parties excluded from a future coalition. Only 22% of respondents think they should be included in the government.

According to Channel 13 News, were elections held at this time, Likud would win 32 Knesset seats, Yesh Atid would win 18, New Hope drops to 14, and Yamina slips to 10 mandates. Current bloc scenarios place Center-Left bloc in a position to unseat Netanyahu.

Channel 12 News predicts that if all center-left parties merged, their slate would win 28 seats while Likud would lead with 30 mandates. Seven small parties not expected to cross the four-seat electoral threshold.

Yamina's leader could gain two Knesset seats if he opts to run independently or with Habayit Hayehudi rather than with National Union leader Bezalel Smotrich. Blue and White teetering on the edge of the electoral threshold.

Major Israeli news outlets project that while Likud would still best its rivals, PM Netanyahu will be hard-pressed to form a stable coalition. Polls show Blue and White teetering on the edge of the electoral threshold.

Polls conducted over the past three months continue to project that for the first time since its inception in the mid-1960s, the Labor party will fail to pass the prerequisite four-Knesset-seat electoral threshold.

The latest Channel 12 News survey sees Likud hold lead with 28 Knesset seats, while Blue and White plunges to just four mandates – the minimal prerequisite to get into parliament.

Channel 12 News sees Likud garner 30 Knesset seats, Yamina, 21. Blue and White drops to 10 seats. Labor, Gesher, and Habayit Hayehudi not expected to pass the electoral threshold. Forty percent of respondents say Netanyahu is the reason Israel headed for yet another election.