{"id":4916,"date":"2013-01-21T16:48:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T22:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2013-02-15T05:32:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T11:32:01","slug":"poll-center-left-bloc-could-tie-netanyahu-led-bloc-at-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/poll-center-left-bloc-could-tie-netanyahu-led-bloc-at-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Center left bloc could tie Netanyahu-led bloc at 48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; Israel could see a left-wing coalition to match the right-wing bloc\u2019s 46\u00a0 projected seats, according to the last poll before Jan. 22 elections. The poll, based on a survey of 1,000 adults, predicts 32 seats for the united Likud-Beiteinu ticket, 14 seats for Naftali Bennett\u2019s Jewish Home party, and two seats for Otzma Le\u2019Israel, an ultrarightist party.<\/p>\n<p>This constellation could be matched by the left wing\u2019s predicted 46 seats through a union of Labor\u2019s predicted 17 seats,\u00a0 Yair Lapid\u2019s centrist Yesh Atid party&#8217;s 13, and 16 seats combined for Hatnua, Meretz and Kadima.<\/p>\n<p>The left&#8217;s alliance is not assured, however, as Lapid has not ruled out joining a coalition led by Netanyahu, unlike Livni and Labor chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich.<\/p>\n<p>Shas and Torah Judaism, both haredi Orthodox parties, garnered a total of 17 seats in the poll, which was published by Yediot Achronot on Jan. 18, the last day before elections in which media are permitted by law to publish polling results.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 11 seats went to Israel\u2019s two Arab parties, Balad and Ra\u2019am Ta\u2019al, and to the leftist Hadash party.<\/p>\n<p>The poll had an error margin of 0.9 seats for a two-seat party and up to 3.2 seats in the case of Likud-Beiteinu.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Poll%3A%20Center%20left%20bloc%20could%20tie%20Netanyahu-led%20bloc%20at%2048\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1794],"tags":[1740,1801,1798,8790,1800,8795,1799,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}