44 days to the elections: A survey by the Direct Polls Institute, conducted after the closing of the lists and the dramatic split in the Joint List, and published this evening (Sunday) on Channel 14, shows that the Netanyahu bloc is breaking the glass ceiling and gaining seats at the expense of the Left-Center-Ahmed Tibi bloc.
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According to the poll, the Likud party led by Benjamin Netanyahu is the largest party in Israel, with 34 seats. Yesh Atid, led by Yair Lapid, is next by a huge margin of 12 seats, with only 22 seats.
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The state camp led by Benny Gantz is up in terms of seats compared to the previous survey published on Thursday - and receives 13 seats. Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit, led by Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, together with Noam, remain with 12 seats. Shas, led by Aryeh Deri, has 9 seats, and United Torah Judaism has 7.
Yisrael Beytenu, led by Avigdor Lieberman, with 6 seats, Labor with 5 seats, Meretz, led by Zehava Galon, with 4. Hadash and Ta'al, after splitting in the joint coalition, also reach 4 seats, and the list is closed by Ra'am, led by Mansur Abbas, also with 4 seats.
The parties that do not pass the threshold: Jewish Home led by Ayelet Shaked with 2.21% (down from the previous poll), Balad, which split from the Joint Party, with 1.61%, the Economic Party with 11%, Hadar Mukhtar's Burning Young People is collapsing with 0.41% (1.41% in the previous poll), and Free Israel – 0.31%.
And this is how the division into blocs will look according to the survey: The right-wing bloc is strengthening and breaking the glass ceiling with a majority of 62, for the first time in Direct Polls surveys - this is against the center-left-Joint List bloc, which stands at 58 seats.
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On the question of suitability for the prime ministership: 49% responded that they think the answer is Benjamin Netanyahu. 27% answered that it is Yair Lapid, 15% answered Benny Gantz, and 9% have not yet decided or think that neither of them is suitable.
The sample was conducted by Shlomo Filber and Zuriel Sharon through Direct Polls LTD for Channel Now 14, on September 18, 2022, among 616 adult respondents (18+) who constitute a representative sample of the entire Jewish population in Israel, in addition, 235 adult respondents (18+) were sampled from among the Arab society in Israel. Statistical sampling error 4.4%+-
