If Israeli elections were held today, MK Benny Gantz’s National Unity party would receive 31 seats, the highest yet since the November 1 election, a new poll shows.

In addition, 41% of Israelis believe Gantz is more suitable than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to serve as prime minister, versus 33% who say the reverse, according to Panels Politics Institute.

The results would be National Unity 31, Likud 25, Yesh Atid 17, Shas 10, United Torah Judaism eight, Yisrael Beytenu six, Otzma Yehudit, Hadash-Ta’al and Religious Zionist Party five each, and Meretz and Ra’am four each. Labor would win only 2.9% of the vote and therefore not pass the 3.25% electoral threshold, the poll found.

These results give the current opposition parties 67 seats, and the current coalition ones 53 seats.

Israelis’ Rate OF Satisfaction

Meanwhile, some 62% of Israelis are not satisfied by the government’s response to the rocket which were fired from Gaza this week, including 30% of those who voted for the current coalition, the poll showed. 20% were satisfied, and 18% did not know.

The poll also found that almost three-fourths (73%) of Israelis are pessimistic about the Israeli government’s ability to lower the number of homicides in Israel, including 45% of those who voted for the current coalition. Some 19% are optimistic, while 9% do not know.

The poll included 517 participants, and its margin of error is 4.3%, according to Dr. Menachem Lazar’s Panels Politics

Source: The Jerusalem Post