Jeremy's Knesset Insider

Channel 2 broadcast a poll of 600 people with a 4.4% margin of error that was conducted by Midgam on Jan 17 2017.

If elections were held today who would you vote for?

Current Knesset seats in [brackets]

26 [11] Yesh Atid
24 [30] Likud
13 [13] The Joint (Arab) List
12 [08] Bayit Yehudi
11 [24] Zionist Union
07 [10] Kulanu
07 [07] Shas
07 [06] Yisrael Beitenu
07 [06] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
06 [05] Meretz

64 [67] Current Right-Religious Coalition
56 [53] Current Center-Left-Arab Opposition

Additional Questions:

Do you believe Netanyahu’s version?

54% No, 28% Yes, 18% Don’t know

Should Netanyahu resign?

44% Yes, 43% No, 13% Don’t know

Who is best suited to be Prime Minister if Netanyahu resigns?

Don’t know/No opinion 43%, Lapid 17%, Bennett 10%, Saar 10%, Yaalon 6%, Herzog 6%, Erdan 5%, Katz 3%

Note #1: There was a mistake in one of the questions in the original post that Miguel pointed out. That mistake has now been corrected.

Note #2: Updated KnessetJeremy Polling Average – The Israeli Poll of Polls: https://knessetjeremy.com/knessetjeremy-polling-average-the-israeli-poll-of-polls/

Midgam conducted a poll that was broadcast by the Knesset Channel on Jan 12 2017.

Should the alimony law be changed to take into account the salary of the couple before deciding who gets custody of the children in terms of a divorce?

74% Yes, 19% No, 7% Don’t know

Do you think changing the alimony law advances the status woman or harms it?

55% Advances, 26% Harms, 19% Don’t know

Should the demand for gender equality include equality on alimony?

69% Yes, 25% No, 6% Don’t know

Are you for a new law that would decide that custody of young children in divorce cases should be decided on a case-by-case basis instead of the current law that automatically grants custody to the mother?

71% New law, 25% Current law, 4% Don’t know

According to the Israeli law there is an equal division of all property and the couples rights that have been acquired during the time of the marriage. Do you agree with the position that the alimony should also be equally distributed after in case of divorce?

71% Yes, 21% No, 8% Don’t know

Do you agree with the opinion that the Rabbinical Judges are not aggressive enough to free women from their Aguna status?

70% Yes, 15% No, 15% Don’t know

Are you for moving the alimony cases between couples exclusively to the civil courts instead of the Rabbinical Courts?

69% Yes, 18% No, 13% Don’t know

Is it possible with the current coalition to transfer alimony cases from the Rabbinical Courts to the civil courts?

58% No, 26% Yes, 16% Don’t know

Smith conducted a poll of 500 Jewish Israelis with a reported 4.5% margin of error that was published by the Jerusalem Post on Jan 12 2017. The poll was conducted on Jan 10-11.

Are the positions of the Obama administration more pro-Israel, pro-Palestinian or neutral?

65% Palestinian, 20% Neutal, 12% Israel, 3% No opinion/Don’t know

Note: 89% of Bayit Yehudi voters answered Palestinian, 45% of Zionist Union and Meretz voters answered Palestinian.
Will the incoming administration be more pro-Israel, pro-Palestinian or neutral?

79% Israel, 10% Neutral, 8% No opinion/Don’t know, 3% Palestinian