The Final List of Parties: The Friday Poll

Yom Shishee

Friday

20 Elul 5782

September 16 2022

 

The Friday Corona Update

1,130 Israelis tested positive yesterday (out of 9,286 tested).

The positive test rate was 12.17%; the coefficient of infection was 1.12%.

81 Israelis are seriously ill; 28 are critically ill—31 of these are on ventilators.

11,676 have died–28 since last Friday.

The summary: Despite the increasing coefficient of infection, the daily death rate remains “low” at 4 per day.

 

The News on the Israeli Street

Good news from Gaza . . .

7 Hamas terrorists were wounded at the Hamas Al-Jabri outpost in northern Gaza when a grenade was mishandled.

Arming the neighborhood . . .

The U.S. announced yesterday that it has awarded a $311.17 million dollar contract to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin for the manufacture of Javelin anti-tank missiles. The missiles will be sold to the Jordanian and Lithuanian armies.

Why the Jordanians need Javelin missiles which are shoulder fired with a range of 2,500 meters is anyone’s guess.

Also it was announced yesterday that France is now supplying $4.5 billion dollars worth of military aid to Egypt.

The interesting factor about both the Jordanian and Egyptian announcements is that neither country has any money with which to pay for the weapons. It is assumed that the Egyptians are working out some kind of trade for Egyptian natural gas, but the Jordanians have nothing to trade.

The brazen Palestinian takeover of Area C continues . . . 

The Jit Palestinian settlement in Samaria announced yesterday that it is going to illegally build a new school outside the settlement. The school will be built on a hill that overlooks Road 60.

It is an area in which numerous “rock” and Molotov attacks take place–very similar to the area at Luban a-Sharqiya which regular readers of OneIsrael know is a place where almost daily attacks on Israelis occur.

The events of the last 16 months of the current coalition government show that our craven politicians will do nothing to stop this takeover.

 

TODAY’S BLOG

The Final List of Parties: The Friday Poll

Below is the final list of parties running in the November 1 election:

• Balad
• Economic Freedom Party
• The Jewish Home
• Free Democratic Israel
• Hadash-Ta’al
• Labor
• Likud
• Meretz
• National Unity (State Camp)
• Netiv Party
• New Economic Party
• Pirate Party
• Religious Zionism (includes Otzma Yehudi and Noam Parties)
• Shas
• Joint Arab List (includes Ra’am, Ta’al)
• United Torah Judaism
• Yesh Atid
• Yisrael Beiteinu
• Youths on Fire

This is a snap Channel 12 poll done last night after the announcement of the parties (compared to the Maariv poll last week):

33 (+2): Likud (Netanyahu)

23 (-2): Yesh Atid (Lapid)

12 (-1): Otzma (Ben Gvir)+National Zionism+ Noam

12 (unchanged): Kahol Levan/New Hope–renamed “State Camp (Gantz/Saar/Eizenkot)

8 (unchanged): Shas (Sephardic Orthodox)

7 (unchanged): United Torah Judaism (Ashkenazi Orthodox)

6 (+1): Yisrael Beiteinu (Liberman)

6 (+2) : Labor (Michaeli)

5 (unchanged): Meretz (Gal-On)

4 (-2): Joint Arab List

4 (unchanged): Ra’am Islamic Party (Abbas)

Summary:

In this poll, the Netanyahu bloc stands at 60, while the Lapid bloc is at 56. However, there is already every indication that Lapid will accept the Joint Arab List into his coalition which would bring his total to 60.

The outlier is Jewish Home (Beit Yehudi). It is polling at 1.9% which is 1.35 below the 3.25 threshold for entry into the Knesset. It seems fair to say that it is critical for Jewish Home to reach the threshold if we are to have a “right” government in Israel.

Shabbat Shalom!