A majority of Israelis believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wartime decisions are driven by his own personal interests rather than the national interest, a new poll finds. .
Fifty-three percent of those surveyed said Prime Minister Netanyahu's personal interests were the biggest factor in sparking the conflict between Israel and Hamas, which has been going on since October 7. According to the latest Channel 13's election poll was released on Sunday.
According to the survey results, only one-third of those surveyed agreed that Israeli leaders made decisions with the country's best interests in mind.
In further bad news for the incumbent prime minister, the poll also found that if elections were held today, about three months after the outbreak of war with Hamas, Prime Minister Netanyahu's conservative Likud party would likely be toppled. did.
According to poll results, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party will win just 16 seats, down from the current 32 seats.
Meanwhile, Minister Benny Gantz, a centrist former army chief of staff who joined Prime Minister Netanyahu's war cabinet from the opposition following Hamas's shocking cross-border attack, will be the biggest winner in Israel's Knesset.
Opinion polls show that if elections were held immediately, his National Unity Party would win 37 seats, an increase from the current 12 seats, and would be in a good position to form a coalition. .
Projections show former Prime Minister Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party will come in third place with 14 seats.
Still, if Economy Minister Nir Barkat, rather than Prime Minister Netanyahu, led the Likud party, polls showed that the Conservatives could win 21 seats.
Israelis last voted on November 1, 2022, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a historic fifth term victory over his main rival Gantz.
The next elections are not scheduled until October 27, 2026, but many Israelis expect national elections to be held this year.
The latest poll adds to a growing number of surveys showing Netanyahu's popularity has fallen sharply in the three months since the start of the bloody war.
A poll conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute earlier this month found that only 15% of Israelis want the current prime minister to remain in office after the war with Hamas ends.
