Right-Wing Narrows The Gap in the Knesset

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An Ipanel survey found that the right-wing/chareidi bloc has strengthened, but still lacks sufficient mandates to form a government.

The Netanyahu and Bennett/Lapid blocs each have 57 seats.

Likud led with 34 mandates, followed by Yesh Atid with 19. Shas and Blue and White had nine seats; UTJ, Labor, and Religious Zionism had seven; Yamina, the Joint Arab List, and Yisroel Beiteinu had six; and Meretz and the United Arab List had five. Gideon Saar’s Tikvah Chadasha party failed to cross the electoral threshold.

Asked which government they would prefer, 43% of respondents chose a Netanyahu-led government and 36% preferred the current Bennett/Lapid coalition. Regarding who should be prime minister, 45% preferred Netanyahu and 25% Bennett. In a match between Netanyahu and Lapid, the former was selected by 45% and the latter by 24%.

What is the most burning issue the government must deal with? The pollsters pointed to the rising cost of living (34%), violence and crime (34%), Iranian nuclear power (12%), and the pandemic (6%).

{Matzav.com Israel}

3 COMMENTS

  1. One would expect a country with almost 5 million Jews of voting age to have as many parties, plus one that nobody ever votes for. It may not be well known, but for many decades Israel managed to have TWO communist parties. TWO!! Each had only few hundred members, and neither has ever achieved anything, but whenever their titular heads were invited to communist conferences, if one went – the other refused to attend. Apparently, playing shieblach didn’t end with becoming totally secular and anti-religious.
    Therefore, this short list is actually quite refreshing.
    If they would all only stop bickering at every opportunity….

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