A majority of Israelis believe that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will continue in his role after the next elections, a poll published by Channel 10 News on Saturday night found.
The poll, conducted by the Midgam project, found that 62% of Israelis said that they believe Netanyahu will be the next prime minister. Netanyahu was followed by Labor chairman Yitzhak Herzog, who was far behind with only 15%. Herzog was followed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Moshe Kahlon, who received three percent each.
The poll also measured the public’s satisfaction with its elected officials. Kahlon, who this week announced that his new party will be named Kulanu, leads the pack, despite not officially being a Knesset Member at the present time. He was followed by Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett, who came in second, and by Netanyahu who ranked third.
Rounding out the list were Liberman, Herzog and former finance minister Yair Lapid, who ranked at the top of similar lists published around the time of the 2013 elections.
A poll released on Friday found that Likud would still prevail over Hatnua head Tzipi Livni’s pact with Labor, with a major gain over the leftist bloc that contradicts recent polls putting Labor ahead by several mandates.
Likud would win 25 mandates if elections were held today, according to the survey published by the Geocartography Institute. By contrast, the Labor-Hatnua pact would win just 18 seats – a far cry from the major wins predicted in other polls, and four seats less than a previous poll held by the institute on December 9.
Kahlon’s Kulanu party would become the third strongest party in the Knesset, with 12 seats, up from ten in the December 9 survey.
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