If elections were held today, a new party with a social agenda would pick up 15 Knesset seats according to a survey by the Panels Institute for the Knesset television channel. Social matters (housing, the price of dairy products and the doctors' strike) were seen as the most important to the existence and future of the state, according to 71 percent of those polled.
The poll said that the Likud would decline to 26 seats and Kadima to 24. The Shas and Labor parties would receive 7 mandates each.