Poll Finds Another Election Narrowly Preferred if No Bloc Reaches 61

An Israeli election poll found 31.4% of respondents preferred another election if no bloc wins 61 Knesset seats, narrowly ahead of 29.6% who favored a unity government and 27% who preferred a minority government; 12% were undecided. Among Netanyahu-bloc voters, 45.02% preferred unity, while 39.79% of opposition voters backed a minority government. The seat projection gave Yashar 24 and Likud 22, with the coalition bloc on 51, the change bloc on 55, Ra’am on six and the Joint List on eight. Tatika Research & Media and the Adgenda panel surveyed 500 Jewish and Arab respondents on September 16–17, with a maximum sampling error of ±4.4%.