National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir received the greatest support among coalition party voters to lead the right-wing bloc in a post-Netanyahu era, according to a new Maariv survey .The poll, on July 10-11, included 500 respondents who represented a sample of Israel’s adult population, both Jews and Arabs. The maximum sampling error is 4.4%.Ben-Gvir receives 24% support among coalition party voters, followed by Yossi Cohen (14%) and Bezalel Smotrich (11%), according to the survey, led by Dr. Menachem Lazar from Lazar Research and in collaboration with Panel4All.
When asked who they would vote for if the Knesset elections were held today, National Unity won 24 seats (23 in previous poll), the Likud 20 seats (21), Yisrael Beytenu 14 seats (14), and Yesh Atid 13 (13).
The Democrats party (Labor and Meretz combined) would receive nine seats (10), as would Shas, holding steady, while Otzma Yehudit would strengthen to 10 seats (9).
United Torah Judaism, at 7, Hadash-Ta’al at 5, and Religious Zionism at 4 would all remain unchanged. Ra’am would garner five seats (up from 4).
According to the results, the bloc breakdown remains with 50 seats for the coalition, 60 for the opposition, and 10 for the Arab parties.
Unified right-wing party
When asked who you would vote for if a unified right-wing party – including Avigdor Liberman, Naftali Bennett, Yossi Cohen, Ayelet Shaked, and Gideon Sa’ar – were to run in the next Knesset elections, and the other parties remain unchanged, the Unified Right Party would get 27 seats (compared to 29 in the previous survey), Likud would drop to 18 (from 19,) while National Unity and Yesh Atid would remain unchanged at 16 and 12 seats respectively.
Shas and Otzma Yehudit would also remain unchanged at nine each. The Democrats will drop one seat to eight, while Hadash-Ta’al will receive four.
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett should lead the unified right-wing party, with 34% of the respondents voting for him. Liberman follows him with 11% of the votes.