A survey of 517 people, commissioned by the Hevrat Hahadashot news agency and published on Sunday, showed that the Likud Party would win 32 Knesset seats if elections were held now. To maintain a coalition, it would have to find a party to replace haredi-religious United Torah Judaism, which is most likely to cause new elections over a law dealing with induction of haredim into the Israel Defense Forces.
Asked who is best suited to be prime minister, 38 percent answered incumbent Binyamin Netanyahu, twelve percent former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, nine percent for Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid, five percent for Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman and four percent for Zionist Union Chairman Avi Gabai. 31 percent said none of them or they did not know or refused to answer.