A Dialog Institute poll for Channel 10 television showed that if the elections were held now, the center right, nationalist and religious camps would win 64 seats, compared with 54 for Kadima and its potential partners, including Arab parties.

The station's political analyst says that some votes that went to the left during the Cast Lead campaign against Gaza terrorists returned to the right, maintaining the bottom line from before the operation.

Likud would capture 29 mandates, compared with 26 for Kadima and 14 for Labor. A Channel 2 poll shows Kadima getting only 23, Likud 31 and Labor 15, while Israel is Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu) would gain 13 votes. The Channel 10 survey awarded 14 seats to the party, headed by Knesset Member Avigdor Lieberman.

Based on the Channel 10 poll, the Shas party would get 10 mandates and Meretz's list with the new left party would be worth six seats. Next comes United Torah Judaism with five and the National Union with four. Two mandates each would go to the Jewish Home and Greens parties, one less than the minimum for representation, and the predominantly Arab parties would win only eight seats.

The public was split about the military operation, with 41 percent agreeing and disagreeing with the premise that the operation was a success. Of those who disagreed, 31 percent said it was because of its failure to return abducted soldier Gilad Shalit. 18 percent said they did not know. Even among those who thought the operation succeeded, a majority believes the rocket fire will resume in the near future.

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