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Panels conducted a poll of 1027 people with a 3% margin of error that was taken out for Knesset Channel and released on March 10 2015.

Current Knesset seats in [brackets]

24 [20] Zionist Union (Labor-Livni)
21 [18] Likud
14 [20] Yesh Atid
13 [11] The Joint (Arab) List
12 [11] Bayit Yehudi
09 [02] Kulanu (Kahlon+Kadima)
07 [10] Shas
06 [07] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
05 [13] Yisrael Beitenu
05 [06] Meretz
04 [02] Yachad (Yishai+Chetboun+Marzel)
00 [00] Green Leaf 1.2% under 3.25% threshold
00 [00] Ten other parties poled under 1%, four others were not polled

64 [63] Right-Religious-Kahlon (Parties that have not ruled out nominating Netanyahu in Phase 2)
56 [57] Center-Left-Arab (Parties that have ruled out nominating Netanyahu in Phase 2)

Additional Questions

How sure are you that you will vote for the party you selected?

UTJ 83% Certain, 8% Probably, 8% Unsure
Likud 72% Certain, 25% Probably, 3% Unsure
The Joint (Arab) List 71% Certain, 21% Probably, 8% Unsure
Bayit Yehudi 64% Certain, 28% Probably, 8% Unsure
Shas 64% Certain, 25% Probably, 11% Unsure
Yachad 63% Certain, 33% Probably, 5% Unsure
Zionist Union 61% Certain, 35% Probably, 5% Unsure
Meretz 59% Certain, 32% Probably, 10% Unsure
Yesh Atid 57% Certain, 33% Probably, 10% Unsure
Yisrael Beitenu 48% Certain, 45% Probably, 9% Unsure
Kulanu 31% Certain, 54% Probably, 16% Unsure

Average 61% Certain, 31% Probably, 8% Unsure

Among voters that are still undecided on their vote, who are you leaning towards if not the party you selected?

Likud voters- Bayit Yehudi 13%, Kulanu 13%
Yesh Atid voters – Zionist Union 38%, Kulanu 12%
Zionist Union voters – Yesh Atid 47%, Merertz 20%
Bayit Yehudi voters – Likud 33%, Kulanu 26%
Kulanu voters – Bayit Yehudi 28%, Yesh Atid 25%
Yachad voters – Bayit Yehudi 38%, Shas 38%
Yisrael Beitenu voters – Bayit Yehudi 33%
Shas voters – 30% Kulanu
Meretz voters – Zionist Union 88%

Who is more worthy between these two candidates to be Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu or Yitzchak Herzog?

50% Netanyahu, 34% Herzog, 16% Don’t know

Who do you want your party leader to endorse at the President’s Residence (Phase 2)?

Yachad voters – 100% Netanyahu, 0% Herzog, 0% Don’t Care
Yisrael Beitenu voters – 100% Netanyahu, 0% Herzog, 0% Don’t Care
Bayit Yehudi voters – 96% Netanyahu, 4% Don’t care, 0% Herzog
UTJ voters – 71% Netanyahu, 14% Herzog, 14% Don’t Care
Shas voters – 67% Netanyahu, 20% Herzog, 13% Don’t Care
Meretz voters – 100% Herzog, 0% Netanyahu, 0% Don’t Care
Yesh Atid voters – 79% Herzog, 14% Netanyahu, 7% Don”t care
The Joint (Arab) List voters – 50% Herzog, 50% Don’t Care, 0% Netanyahu
Kulanu voters – 47% Herzog, 33% Netanyahu, 20% Don’t Care

How do you define yourself politcally? (from left to right)

Meretz voters – 76% Left, 18% Center-Left, 5% Center, 0% Center-Right, 0% Right
Zionist Union voters – 18% Left, 47% Center-Left, 25% Center, 7% Center-Right, 3% Right
Kulanu voters – 2% Left, 2% Center-Left, 29% Center, 39% Center-Right, 29% Right
Yesh Atid voters – 1% Left, 19% Center-Left, 39% Center, 36% Center-Right, 6% Right
Shas voters – 0% Left, 8% Center-Left, 23% Center, 19% Center-Right, 50% Right
UTJ voters – 0% Left, 4% Center-Left, 17% Center, 46% Center-Right, 33% Right
Likud voters – 0% Left, 1% Center-Left, 5% Center, 27% Center-Right, 67% Right
Yisrael Beitenu voters – 0% Left, 0% Center-Left, 9% Center, 27% Center-Right, 64% Right
Bayit Yehudi voters – 0% Left, 0% Center-Left, 2% Center, 18% Center-Right, 80% Right
Yachad voters – 0% Left, 0% Center-Left, 0% Center, 30% Center-Right, 71% Right

Undecided voters – 5% Left, 14% Center-Left, 25% Center, 33% Center-Right, 24% Right

Total – 8% Left, 15% Center-Left, 18% Center, 24% Center-Right, 35% Right

TRI conducted a poll that was taken out for Bizportal and released on March 10 2015.

Current Knesset seats in [brackets]

24 [20] Zionist Union (Labor-Livni)
24 [18] Likud
14 [20] Yesh Atid
12 [11] Bayit Yehudi
12 [11] The Joint (Arab) List
08 [02] Kulanu (Kahlon+Kadima)
07 [07] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
06 [06] Meretz
05 [10] Shas
04 [13] Yisrael Beitenu
04 [02] Yachad (Yishai+Chetboun+Marzel)

64 [63] Right-Religious-Kahlon (Parties that have not ruled out nominating Netanyahu in Phase 2)
56 [57] Center-Left-Arab (Parties that have ruled out nominating Netanyahu in Phase 2)

Geocartography conducted a poll that was taken out for i24news and released on March 8 2015.

Current Knesset seats in [brackets]

26 [18] Likud
21 [20] Zionist Union (Labor-Livni)
13 [11] Bayit Yehudi
12 [20] Yesh Atid
12 [11] The Joint (Arab) List
08 [10] Shas
08 [07] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
08 [02] Kulanu (Kahlon+Kadima)
07 [13] Yisrael Beitenu
05 [06] Meretz
00 [02] Yachad (Yishai+Chetboun+Marzel) – 3 seats but under 3.25% electoral threshold

70 [63] Right-Religious-Kahlon (Parties that have not ruled out nominating Netanyahu in Phase 2)
50 [57] Center-Left-Arab (Parties that have ruled out nominating Netanyahu in Phase 2)

Knesset Jeremy’s Weekly Average – The Israeli Poll of Polls

 

Knesset Jeremy Weekly Average #14 (week of March 1-7 2015) of 12 polls from 8 leading polling companies (3 Panels, 2 Teleseker, 2 Midgam, 1 Smith, 1 Dialog, 1 Maagar Mochot,  1 New Wave, 1 Geocartography,  0 Sarid & TRI.

 

(Last Week in brackets), current Knesset seats in [brackets]

1st 23.50 (23.66) [20] Zionist Union (Labor+Livni)

2nd 22.83 (23.08) [18] Likud

3rd 12.58 (12.41) [11] The Joint (Arab) List

4th 12.30 (11.91) [20] Yesh Atid

5th 11.91 (12.00) [11] Bayit Yehudi

6th 08.25 (08.16) [02] Koolanu (Kahlon+Kadima)

7th 06.83 (06.75) [10] Shas

8th 06.66 (06.91) [07] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ

9th 05.58 (05.66) [13] Yisrael Beitenu

10th 05.33 (05.00) [06] Meretz

11th 04.16 (04.41) [02] Yachad (Yishai+Chetboun+Marzel)

 

66.25 (67.08) [63] Right-Religious-Kahlon (Parties that have not ruled out nominating a Netanyahu coalition)

53.75 (52.91) [57] Center-Left-Arab (Parties that have ruled out nominating a Netanyahu coalition)

 

Changes: Yesh Atid passes Bayit Yehudi for fourth place and Shas replaces UTJ for seventh place.

 

Largest Gains: Yesh Atid gained 0.39 of a seat; Meretz gained 0.33 of a seat and The Joint (Arab) List gained 0.17.

Biggest Losses: Likud, UTJ and Yachad all dropped 0.25 of a seat.

Swing: Less than 1.1 seat change across the board from last week.

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The 3-phase process to the Prime Minister House: Phase 1 – Elections (seats). Phase 2 – President’s Residence (nomination). Phase 3 – Knesset vote (61 MKs needed).

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Knesset Jeremy Analysis – Week 14:

1 – The Speech, The Debate and Purim.

The election is ten days away. Yet, it seems like a majority of Israelis concentrated on the Jewish holiday of Purim during a week that was dominated by headlines and analysis from the previous weekend’s debate and Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. The overall swing was about 1.1 Knesset seats.

Likud lost a quarter of a seat this week, despite polling better in the second part of the week following Netanyahu’s Knesset speech, due to a poor showing in the beginning of the week ahead of the speech. Overall Likud had a high of 24 (3 polls) and a low of 21 (1 poll) for a 22.83 average compared to Zionist Union’s low of 22 and high of 24 for an average of 23.5. The best news for Netanyahu this week was Shas’s decision to join Yachad and Bayit Yehudi in endorsing Netanyahu for Phase 2.

Herzog is happy to see the parties that have ruled out nominating a Netanyahu coalition increase to 53.75 with two polls this week giving the bloc 56 seats. His bloc did suffer a setback when The Joint List announced they would not sign a voter exchange agreement with Meretz. Herzog who signed with Meretz was hoping to increase his bloc by cancelling the agreement to sign with Yesh Atid if The Joint List agreed to sign with Meretz. If The Joint List won’t sign a voter exchange agreement with Meretz, it will be interesting to see if they will be able to bring themselves to nominate Herzog for Phase 2. It is great news for his bloc that Meretz is up this week.

With the top two parties fighting for the largest list, the battle for the third largest list will be an interesting story-line to follow. The Joint List, Yesh Atid and Bayit Yehudi are all averaging within a half a seat of each other. Yesh Atid is the party with momentum and hasn’t been in single digits since Feb 15. Kulanu is still trying to figure out how to get out of single digits.

Shas enjoyed a bump after Deri’s endorsement of Netanyahu, receiving 7 and 8 seats in the last two polls released this week. There was a lot of pressure for Deri to support Netanyahu. A previous public poll showed that just 4% of Shas voters preferred Herzog to Netanyahu. Yachad was down to 4 seats in the last ten polls conducted this week. Yishai is expected to lose from Deri’s endorsement. 5 polls (Smith, Panels, Midgam, Dialog and New Wave) had UTJ at just 6 seats this week.

2 – Week 15 Preview: The Last Week of Polling

On Friday I will release the last Knesset Jeremy Weekly Average. This means Knesset Jeremy Weekly Average #15 will most likely be the last poll related post on Knesset Jeremy for this election cycle due to the Israeli law.

In the final Poll of Polls post I will post a prediction for the final results that will be based on the polls average, factions of seats lost votes to the 15 parties expected not to pass the threshold, vote-swap agreements and momentum. This will be based on pure science and math, no hunches or gut feelings. I can tell you ahead of time that it will be wrong, but it will be interesting to see how close (or far) it is from the final results.

In 2013 the KnessetJeremy Average predicted 8 of the 12 lists elected within 1 seat of the final election results.

Official Results (KJ AVG) Party
31 (35) Likud Beitenu
15 (18) Labor
12 (15) Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home/National Union)
19 (12) Yesh Atid
11 (11) Shas
6 (7) Movement
7 (6) Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
6 (6) Meretz
4 (4) Hadash
4 (3) Ra’am-Ta’al
3 (3) Balad
2 (2) Kadima (Model predicted Kadima over 2 seats but under 2.4 seats)

Knesset Jeremy Poll of Polls: Likud Beitenu 33.7, Labor 16.5, Bayit Yehudi 14.0, Yesh Atid 10.9, Shas 10.6, Movement 7.2

For more analysis on the ‘Poll of Polls’ you can catch my weekly radio interview on Sundays with Gil Hoffman on Voice of Israel.com

Smith conducted a poll that was taken out for Reshet Bet Radio and released on March 6 2015.

Current Knesset seats in [brackets]

23 [20] Zionist Union (Labor-Livni)
23 [18] Likud
13 [11] The Joint (Arab) List
12 [20] Yesh Atid
12 [11] Bayit Yehudi
09 [10] Shas
08 [02] Kulanu (Kahlon+Kadima)
06 [07] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
05 [13] Yisrael Beitenu
05 [06] Meretz
04 [02] Yachad (Yishai+Chetboun+Marzel)

67 [63] Right-Religious-Kahlon (Parties that have not ruled out nominating Netanyahu in Phase 2)
53 [57] Center-Left-Arab (Parties that have ruled out nominating Netanyahu in Phase 2)