Netanyahu continues to trail in the polls

Yair Lapid, Benjamin Netanyahu Photo: Flash 90
Yair Lapid, Benjamin Netanyahu Photo: Flash 90

The latest poll for Radio 103FM shows Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid winning 26 seats and the ruling Likud winning 24 seats.

A poll for Radio 103FM by the Maagar Machot Institute, finds that, as in a poll conducted last week by Mina Tzemach and Meno Geva of the Midgam Research Institute, Benjamin Netanyahu would struggle to form a government if elections were held now. The big winner in the poll is again Yair Lapid and his Yesh Atid party.

According to the poll, Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party, which has been continually strengthening in all public opinion surveys, would win 26 Knesset seats, more than double the 11 seats that he has in the current Knesset.

In this latest poll, Likud is on 24 seats, compared with 30 seats in the current Knesset. The Arab Joint List remains unchanged with 13 seats, and Naftali Bennett's Habayit Hayehudi also has 13 seats, up from 8 seats in the current Knesset.

Isaac Herzog's Zionist Union would win 11 seats, down dramatically from 24 seats in the current Knesset. Shas and Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beitenu would win 7 seats, United Torah Judaism and Moshe Kahlon's Kulanu party would win 6 seats, and Meretz would win 4 seats. Moshe Ya'alon's new party would be just below the minimum threshold of winning the four seats required to enter the Knesset.

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on March 22, 2017

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Yair Lapid, Benjamin Netanyahu Photo: Flash 90
Yair Lapid, Benjamin Netanyahu Photo: Flash 90
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