New poll shows Benny Gantz leads Netanyahu as top pick for PM; Likud bloc loses 13 seats

Blue and White Leader Benny Gantz (l) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Flash90)

 

 

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

Psalm 122:6

Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Genesis 12:1-3

Every person, every professing Christian needs to seriously, daily, and nightly pray for the land of Israel and the people of Israel. Such a darkness has fallen over that nation. Rioting, delusion, confusion, lying, and evil at work in God’s chosen land, God’s chosen people.

Take time, faithful, fervent time daily, nightly to pray for Israel. This is not political in nature as it appears on the surface. This is part and parcel of the escalating spiritual war taking place within and around every person on earth without letting up.

Pray for Israel. The Israeli people. For Benjamin Netanyahu to turn closer to God and the Scriptures. To lead that lost nation, that lost people still thousands of years having been freed from bondage in Egypt and wandering in the wilderness, having and then losing their nation for millennia — they are still lost, still wandering, and infighting at horrendous levels.

Pray for Israel.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Friday, April 14th, 2023

 

Pray for Israel: New poll shows Benny Gantz leads Netanyahu as the top pick for PM; Likud bloc loses 13 seats

Center-Left bloc and Arab parties could form new coalition government if new elections were held today, poll finds, as right-wing bloc collapses.

 

April 14, 2023

By World Israel News Staff

Reprinted from World Israel News

 

Israel’s ruling right-wing bloc has suffered a major loss in public support, according to a new poll, with the Opposition parties projected to make major gains if new elections were held today.

The poll was conducted by Panels Politics and published Friday morning by the Hebrew daily Ma’ariv, surveying Israeli Jews and Arabs with a margin of error of +/- 4.3%.

National Unity camp party chairman and former Defense Minister Benny Gantz is now the top candidate for prime minister, the poll found, leading the incumbent, Benjamin Netanyahu, 44% to 37%.

If new elections were held today, the parties which make up the coalition government would win just 51 seats, compared to 64 seats won in last November’s election.

Gantz’s National Unity list, a joint ticket of his Blue and White party and the center-right New Hope party which split from the Likud, is now tied with the ruling Likud faction at 26 seats each. That marks a massive increase for National Unity, which won 12 seats November, a decline of six seats for the Likud, which currently holds 32 seats.

The Likud’s right-wing and religious allies also fared poorly in the poll, with the Religious Zionist Party falling from its current seven seats to five seats and Otzma Yehudit sinking from six seats to four – barely crossing the electoral threshold. The two parties ran on a joint ticket, along with the small Noam faction, winning a total of 14 seats, with Noam taking just one seat. Noam did not pass the threshold in Friday’s poll.

Shas received just nine seats in the poll, down from eleven in the current Knesset, while United Torah Judaism retained is seven seats.

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party also lost ground, due primarily to gains by National Unity, sinking from 24 seats in the current Knesset to 19 seats in the new poll.

Yisrael Beytenu, the party of former Finance Minister Avidgor Liberman, received six seats in the poll, the same number it won last year, while Labor retained its four seats.

The far-left Meretz faction also received four seats, after failing to cross the minimum threshold in the previous election.

Among the Arab parties, the Hadash-Ta’al alliance received six seats, while the United Arab List (Ra’am) fell to four, while the Arab nationalist Balad party continues to poll below the minimum threshold at 2.3%.