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(IsraelNN.com) Jewish Leadership Likud faction leader Moshe Feiglin said that a recent internet-based poll showing that his faction will cost his party six mandates is misleading and that in the long run he will strengthen the Likud. "When the 'right' retains its traditional positions, it wins more mandates than the 'left,' but as soon as it begins to lean leftward, it loses votes," he said in his weekly letter to supporters.

Feiglin explained that the Likud held 48 Knesset seats in 1981 under the leadership of Menachem Begin but that when he "decided to fulfill the policies of the Left" with the expulsion of Jews from the Sinai Peninsula and the surrender of the area to Egypt, its popularity declined to 21 seats in 1984.