In the latest poll, taken by Maariv-Walla, we have the following results:
Likud (Netanyahu): 25
Labor (Herzog-Livni): 24
Bayit Yehudi (Bennett): 15
Arab List: 11
Kulanu (Kachlon): 10
Yesh Atid (Lapid): 9
UTJ (Litzman-Gafni): 8
Shas (Deri): 6
Meretz (Gal-on): 6
Yisrael Beiteinu (Liberman): 6 In the latest poll the Likud is now back on top. Due to their unification, in response to the raised electoral threshold, the united Arab list is likely to become the 4th largest party in the Knesset, though it still remains one of the smaller parties.
Eli Yishai just barely keeps on missing the electoral threshold.
Deri is expected to announce next week that his permanent exit from politics or as head of the Shas party is over, and he’s retaking the reins of the Shas party.
Unless one of the two larger parties can break away and get higher numbers, we still see this ongoing deadlock situation, where everyone is reliant on the smaller parties to form a coalition, is its possible to form a coalition at all.
If Labor and Likud form a national unity government, that will actually provide them a wide range of partners, of course, the government will be even worse than the last one.
With neither Kachlon, Shas, UTJ or Yisrael Beiteinu swearing allegiance to a right-wing coalition, everything is up for grabs.
It appears, in fact, that Labor would have an easier time to form a coalition than Likud with these numbers.
In a second question asked: between Benjamin Netanyahu and Yitzchak Herzog, 50% believe that Netanyahu is better suited to be Prime Minister, while 25% believe Herzog is better suited for the task.