Netanyahu's Likud party is stabilizing, while his coalition partners see a drop in mandates. Where do parties stand should elections be called?
TIME Magazine published a follow-up report disputing statements made by the prime minister in his exclusive interview earlier this month.
Israeli voters prefer Prime Minister Netanyahu to opposition leader and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid.
If Naftali Bennett were to form a new party, it would receive 21 mandates in the elections and become the largest party.
With sharp criticism, Bennett provides practical alternatives to Israel's short and long-term strategy.
"The leadership has put its interests ahead of the State of Israel - it must be replaced," Bennett said.
Although most estimates suggest that the coalition's position has stabilized recently, the likelihood of toppling the government and calling early elections has not been entirely ruled out.
Bennett compared Israel to the “wave breaker in the middle of a big wave of radical Jihadi terror, that in a sense is defending the west from this wave.”
The purpose of a "rotation government" is to create a "two-headed" government, with a prime minister and "alternate prime minister" who switch midway through their tenure.
The address Netanyahu gave at the US Congress did little to convince Israelis one way or the other.
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