Category: Polls


Direct Polls conducted a poll of center-left voters that was published by Makor Rishon on January 6 2019.

Do you support removing Avi Gabbai as Labor Chairman?

54.1% Yes, 36.8% No, 9.1% Don’t know

Do you support Gabbai’s move to end the partnership of the Zionist Union?

52.1% No, 22.9% Support the move but not the way it was done, 21% Yes, 4% Don’t know

Who should lead the Labor list in the next elections if not Avi Gabbai?

25.3% Gantz, 18.6% Barak, 12.4% Livni, 12.2% Don’t know, 11.8% Yachimovich, 10.8% Ashkenazi, 8.9% Shapir

Should Labor run alone or join a Center-left alliance?

76.6% Run as an alliance, 18.8% Run alone, 4.6% Don’t know

Direct Polls conducted a poll of 2025 Dati Leumi and Haredi Leumi voters with a 2% margin of error for Makor Rishon that was published on Jan 4 2019.

Who do you vote for in the last elections?

75.2% Bayit Yehudi, 10% Likud, 9.8% Yachad, 2.6% Other, 0.9% Didn’t vote, 0.7% Shas, 0.4% Yesh Atid, 0.3% Kulanu

Who will you vote for in this election?

45.6% Bayit Yehudi, 21.8% HaYamin HeHadash, 17.9% Undecided, 8.7% Likud, 3.4% Other, 0.5% Shas, 0.4% Gesher, 0.2% Israel Resilience, 0% Kulanu

Do you support or oppose Bennett & Shaked’s decision?

39.6% Oppose, 37.5% Support, 13.2% Depends on who is chosen on both lists, 9.7% Undecided

Young voters: 47.6% Support, 28.2% Oppose, 13.9% Depends on list, 10.4% Undecided
Hardal voters: 38.8% Oppose, 36.6% Support, 13.8% Depends on the list, 10.8% Undecided

What is the main reason for you position on the previous question?

26% Dangerous for the right bloc, 24.9% Harms the religious zionist base, 23.5% To achieve national leadership it is not enough to be sectorial, 15.2% Should strengthen the right bloc, 10.5% It was expected for a long time

Note: 34.1% of young voters answered “To achieve national leadership” compared to 16.1% of Hardal voters.

Do you support a joint list of Bayit Yehudi and Tekuma with Yachad of Eli Yishai and/or Otzma?

66.9% Yes, 22.6% Depends on each list, 6.6% No, 4% Undecided

What was the motive behind Bennett and Shaked leaving?

39.5% Ideology and personal gain, 28.8% Personal gain, 22.8% Ideology and values, 8.8% Don’t know

Note: More than a third of young Bayit Yehudi voters answered the motives were ideology and values.

Who should lead the Bayit Yehudi list?

40.4% Smotrich, 38.2% Someone new, 9.3% Ben Dahan, 6.3% Ariel, 5.9% Yogev

Midgam conducted a poll of 507 people with a 4.4% margin of error for Channel 13 that was published on Jan 5 2019.

Who should lead the Yamin HeHadash list in the next elections?

40% Don’t know, 33% Bennett, 27% Shaked

Was Avi Gabbai justified or not justified in breaking up his partnership with Tzipi Livni?

39% Justified, 36% Don’t know, 25% Not Justified

Should AG Avichai Mandelblit publicize his decision on an indictment pending a hearing against Prime Minister Netanyahu before the elections?

64% Yes, 22% No, 14% Don’t know

Do you support for ex IDF COS Gabi Ashekenazi joining politics before the election?

47% Yes, 34% No, 19% Don’t know

Shvakim Panorama conducted an internal poll for Yisrael Beitenu that was published on journalist Attila Somfalvi’s twitter feed on Jan 5 2019.

Current Knesset seats in [brackets]

26 [30] Likud
13 [-–] Israel Resilience (Gantz)
12 [13] The Joint (Arab) List
10 [11] Yesh Atid
08 [18] Labor
08 [05] Yisrael Beitenu
07 [06] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
07 [07] Shas
06 [05] Meretz
06 [03] Hayamin Hehadash (Bennett & Shaked)
05 [10] Kulanu
04 [06] Livni Party
04 [05] Bayit Yehudi
04 [01] Gesher (Orly Levy)
00 [–-] Yachad (Eli Yishai), Telem (Yaalon) , Zehut (Feiglin), Otzma (Marzel), Eretz Chadasha (Eldad Yaniv), Green Leaf, Ofek Chadash (as other) under 3.25% threshold

63 [66] Current Right-Religious Coalition+Y.B.
57 [54] Current Center-Left-Arab Opposition+Gantz-Y.B.

Note: Internal poll won’t be used in the average..

Panels conducted a poll with a 4.3% margin of error for Maariv that was published on Jan 4 2019.

Current Knesset seats in [brackets]

30 [30] Likud
13 [13] The Joint (Arab) List
12 [11] Yesh Atid
12 [-–] Israel Resilience (Gantz)
11 [03] Hayamin Hehadash (Bennett & Shaked)
08 [18] Labor
07 [06] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
05 [10] Kulanu
05 [07] Shas
05 [05] Meretz
04 [05] Bayit Yehudi
04 [05] Yisrael Beitenu
04 [01] Gesher (Orly Levy)
00 [06] Livni Party – under threshold – 2.7%
00 [–-] Yachad (Eli Yishai) – 2.5%
00 [–-] Telem (Yaalon) , Zehut (Feiglin), Otzma (Marzel), Eretz Chadasha (Eldad Yaniv), Green Leaf, Ofek Chadash (as other) under 3.25% threshold

66 [66] Current Right-Religious Coalition+Y.B.
54 [54] Current Center-Left-Arab Opposition+Gantz-Y.B.

Additional Question/Note

Who is better suited to be Prime Minister?

49% Netanyahu, 26% Gantz, 25% Don’t know

Note: The poll was presented as a scenario poll where people are asked to vote in the event Netanyahu is facing an indictment pending a hearing that will take place before the election.