The dramatic poll by 'Direct Falls': Right on the verge of a deadlock, Saar out of office

January 6, 2022   

A dramatic mandate poll by the polling company Direct Polls, published this evening (Thursday) in the main edition of 'Now 14', presents interesting data. Did you divide? For thousands of years we dreamed of Jerusalem, so now we want to dirty it? On Saturday: The mother rested, the child pulled the trigger – and was hospitalized in serious condition Are you crazy? Is your child unprotected? One in every 150 children who contracted the virus was hospitalized The survey shows that if the Knesset elections were held today, the Likud party would strengthen and maintain its position as the largest party in the Knesset - receiving 35 seats. Yesh Atid, the second largest party, is significantly behind it with 19 seats. In third place is a surprising Shas with 9 seats. Benny Gantz's Blue and White is surprising and maintains its strength with 8 seats, with Yisrael Beiteinu weakening slightly and receiving 7 seats, as well as Labor, Religious Zionism, the Joint List and United Torah Judaism, which each receive 7 seats. Mansour Abbas's Ra'am party strengthens and receives 6 seats, Meretz weakens and receives 4 seats, Yamina, led by Naftali Bennett, crashes and stops on the verge of the electoral threshold with 4 seats as well. And Saar's New Hope falls even lower than that and does not pass the threshold with only 2.91% of the vote. Divided into blocs: the opposition parties, excluding the Joint List, receive 58 seats, the coalition parties are all unable to form a government with only 55 seats, and the Joint List with 7 seats. In addition, we examined in the survey which of the following two individuals, in your opinion, is more suitable for the position of Prime Minister: Opposition Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu received the most votes from respondents with 471%, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett with 371%. Of the respondents, 161% believe that neither of them has made up their minds and one percent have not yet decided. In a similar question regarding Yair Lapid, the results are almost identical. Benjamin Netanyahu with 481%, Yair Lapid with 371%. Of the respondents, 12% believe that none of them are suitable and 3% have not decided. On the question of suitability for the role of prime minister, with Bennett head-to-head with Gantz, Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz leads by a significant margin with 34%, Naftali Bennett below him with 22%, with 40% of the respondents responding that none of them are suitable for the role and 4% have not yet decided. Against the backdrop of the outbreak of the fifth wave of the Corona and the record-breaking number of daily confirmed cases, respondents were asked "How would you define the government's handling of the Omicron outbreak and the fifth wave?" 36% believe that the government's conduct is "very bad", 11% defined it as "not good", 17% responded that it is "not so good", 24% think it is "good" and only 12% believe it is "very good". The sample was conducted by Shlomo Filber and Zuriel Sharon using Direct Polls LTD for the Now channel 14, on January 6, 2022, using a digital system combined with a panel, among 528 adult respondents (aged 18+) who constitute a representative sample of the population in Israel. The statistical sampling error is +- 4.4% with a probability of 95%.