Haaretz Poll: Majority of ’Israelis’ Don’t Want Netanyahu A PM

Local Editor

"Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still seen as the most suitable candidate for the Zionist entity, leaving all his rivals on the left and the right far behind, according to the latest Haaretz-Dialog poll.

However, the poll also reveals that a solid majority believes that the entity's under Netanyahu's leadership is not heading in the right direction and that he should not continue as prime minister after the approaching elections.

The poll was conducted on Tuesday among a representative sample of the "Israeli" public.

According to the poll, if the elections were held today, Likud and the joint Labor-Hatnua party would score 21 Knesset seats each. The previous Dialog survey, held some three weeks ago, before the Herzog-Livni merger, predicted Likud would win 24 Knesset seats.

Yisrael Beteinu, headed by "Israeli" Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, would win 8 Knesset seats today, compared to 11 at the end of November.

Another significant finding in the survey is that the departure of Eli Yishai from Shas will lead to the collapse of the party. The ultra-Orthodox Sephardi party stands to lose two-thirds of its strength, compared to the previous survey. If elections were held today, Shas would win only four seats, the minimum required to enter the Knesset under the new electoral threshold [3.25 percent].
Yishai's new party would win only three Knesset seats.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team