In the shadow of the pressures on the Labor Party to unite with Meretz, this evening (Wednesday) a new mandate survey was published on News 12, according to which a union between the two parties would give them nine mandates. According to the survey, Likud continues to stand alone at the top with 33 seats. There is a future led by Prime Minister Yair Lapid with 24.
The combination between Benny Gantz and Gideon Sa’ar yields 12 mandates, followed immediately by religious Zionism led by Smotrich with 11 mandates. Shas maintains its strength with 8, Torah Judaism with 7 mandates. Yisrael Beitenu obtains six mandates. The Labor Party, the Joint List and Meretz each obtain 5 mandates. The list closes with Ra’am with 4 mandates. Below the blocking percentage, the Zionist spirit led by Shaked and Handel and Yaron Zelicha’s party. In addition, the surprising name in the survey is the Burning Youth party led by Hadar Mokhtar, which does not pass the threshold, but receives 1.5%. Mokhtar herself cannot be elected to the Knesset at all, since she is not yet 21 years old, but the party under her leadership receives a support rate of about two mandates.
In the picture of the blocs, Netanyahu is 2 mandates away from a government while the bloc he heads stands at 59 mandates. The opposite bloc stands at 56 seats, with the addition of the joint list to the bloc could keep Lapid in the prime minister’s throne.