Netanyahu’s popularity rebounds after October 7 attacks collapse

A poll shows that Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party would be the largest party in the Israeli parliament if elections were held today, gradually recovering from the attacks of October 7, 2023. The poll, published in the Maariv newspaper, shows that Likud would win 24 seats, against 32 today, recording the highest score since October 7th. It would be followed by Benny Gantz’s National Unity Party with 21 seats. Netanyahu’s right/far-right governing coalition would lose the election with 53 seats in the 120-member Knesset, compared to 58 for the opposition bloc. But Likud’s performance alone shows how much Netanyahu has recovered since last year, when his prestige was severely damaged by the fiasco of the Israeli security apparatus that allowed the October 7 attacks by Hamas and allied groups to take place that killed 1,200 people and they took more than 250 hostages. During the first period of the war in Gaza, the polls did not give […]
Source: News Beast

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