2021 Election

As the election nears, Yamina leader Naftali Bennett tells Israel Hayom that he will be the next prime minister – despite what the polls and the electoral math would appear to indicate.

With a new poll predicting the left-wing party will fail to make it into the next Knesset, Meretz party head Nitzan Horowitz says, "There is no replacement for Meretz and its struggles against the occupation, the fascism, and the dictatorship creeping into Israel."

Likud predicted to win 29 seats, with 17 for Yesh Atid and 10 for the Joint Arab List. Poll also asks respondents about their COVID vaccination status, and results show that the more religious they are, the less likely they are to have gotten the vaccine.

Naftali Bennett's party is poised to win 13 Knesset seats to Gideon Sa'ar's 11, cementing Bennett's position as kingmaker in the current political race.

Yamina's leader reiterates plans to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but says that the possibility of a coalition with Likud under Yamina's leadership is not necessarily off the table.

In courting votes, the Joint Arab List and Ra'am are engaged in a smear campaign of the ugliest kind. This could backfire and undermine voter turnout.

The fate of the future coalition seems to rest in the hands of the smaller parties, most of which are teetering on the brink of the four-seat electoral threshold. In first, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and New Hope chief Gideon Sa'ar's approval ratings are tied.

"When the Left is a partner in the government, it sets its tone," Religious Zionist Chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich tells Israel Hayom.

A survey by local radio station 103FM also finds that the prime minister's rivals are edging up in terms of their approval ratings.