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Netanyahu Slides In Preferred PM Polling Amid Protests, Security Threats

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The Israeli political environment shows little sign of returning to a stable position in the short-to-medium term with mass protests against proposed judicial reforms continuing in major cities. This atmosphere of instability is exacerbated by security threats in the form of individual terrorist attacks on Israelis in the West Bank and rocket strikes from Hamas from Lebanese and Syrian territory. All of this has combined to send PM Benjamin Netanyahu's personal approval plummeting, as shown in the latest preferred PM opinion polling.

  • All Direct Polls preferred PM polling, +/- vs. 4 April 2023, Fieldwork: 16 April 2023, Sample size: 1,516
    • Gantz vs Netanyahu: Benny Gantz (National Unity): 49% (+5), Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud): 43% (-5)
    • Netanyahu vs Gantz vs Lapid: Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud): 43% (-4), Gantz (NU): 37% (+6), Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid): 17% (+2)
    • Netanyahu vs Lapid: Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud): 44% (-4), Yair Lapid (YA): 34% (+2)
  • The centrist National Unity alliance leads in general election opinion polling as voters shift support to the party led by Gantz, a former defence minister and Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces.

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