Maagar Mochot poll broadcast on Channel 10 on March 17 2013
Current Knesset seats in [brackets]
30 [31] Likud Beitenu
25 [19] Yesh Atid
12 [12] Bayit Yehudi
12 [11] Shas
11 [15] Labor
07 [07] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
05 [06] Movement
01 [02] Kadima
17 [17] Mertez, Ra’am-Ta’al, Hadash and Balad
61 [61] Right-Religious
59 [59] Center-Left-Arab
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Pretty much day and night from the other poll.
But hasn’t the Knesset been meeting? Are you still doing reports?
Pretty much…
Knesset has been meeting but no bills are being discussed. The MK first speeches are “cute” at best.
Jeremy….please do not cluster Mertez, Ra’am-Ta’al, Hadash and Balad together. Meretz (you had it misspelled as well) is a Zionist party, whereas the others are not. Meretz is a party supported by a large % of the liberal population in Tel Aviv and deserves to be recognized and treated as a legitimate aspirational party that has Israel’s best interests at heart. It is NOT anything like Ra’am-Ta’al, Hadash, or Balad.
Hi David.
Channel 10 decided not to broadcast individual results for Meretz, Ra’am-Ta’al, Hadash and Balad.
Feel free to write a letter to them and ask them why they chose that course of action.
I have a long standing policy of listing polls by the party, but in cases like these I have no clue how many seats Meretz received.
Interesting point. I had no doubt that Jeremy did not do this intentionally.
I did check Chashah’s website, and they do not in fact use the word “Zionist”. On the other hand, they are not technically an Arab party, and both Meretz and Chadash were formed partly from Communist parties dating back to the early days, so one could make a case to put Chadash with Meretz and separate from RT/Balad. We did have a liberal Jewish friend who voted for Chadash.
But the truth is that Jeremy is right, and listings should be by party. Frankly, if the tikshoret groups the three together, this is a bit racist (kind of like assuming all Chareidim are the same), and I should apologize for doing the same myself in the past.