SHAREQ: If elections for the Knesset were held today, for which party would you vote?
*The numbers in parentheses represent the results of the poll conducted one week ago.
- Likud: 30 (31)
- Labour 20 (18)
- Yisrael Beiteinu 12 (12)
- Yesh Atid 12 (11)
- Arab Parties 11 (10)
- Kadima 10 (11)
- Shas 7 (8)
- United Torah Judaism 6 (6)
- Meretz 4 (5)
- Jewish Home 4 (4)
- National Union 4 (4)
- Independence Party 0 (0)
Q: Was Netanyahu and Mofaz’s decision to form a unity government and postpone the elections justified as far as the interests of the country are concerned?
- Justified: 50.9%,
- unjustified: 34.8%
- don’t know: 14.3%
Q: How do you feel about this step?
- Indifference: 31%
- support: 30.7%
- opposed: 29.9%
- don’t know: 8.3%
Q: What, in your opinion, were the motives behind Mofaz’s decision?
- Political survival: 70.6%
- the country’s benefit: 16.6%
- don’t know: 12.8%
Q: In your opinion, will or won’t the unity government succeed in promoting changes in the Tal Law and the system of government?
- Won’t succeed: 46.7%
- will succeed: 37.7%
- don’t know: 15.6%
Q: In your opinion, does or doesn’t the formation of a unity government bolster Israel’s battle against the Iranian nuclear program?
- Bolsters: 44.9%,
- doesn’t bolster: 39.5%
- don’t know: 15.6
Q: Do you think the unity government will last until the next elections in November 2013?
- Yes: 57.4%
- no: 29.1%
- don’t know 13.5%
Q: Who do you think are the main beneficiaries of the formation of the unity government?
*More than one name can be named
- Shaul Mofaz: 54.1%
- Binyamin Netanyahu: 53%
- Ehud Barak: 18.1%
Q: Who do you think stands to lose the most from the formation of the unity government?
- Yair Lapid: 46.6%
- Shelly Yacimovich: 35.8%
- Aryeh Deri: 13.9%
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The poll was held on May 8 and questioned 550 people. The margin of error is 2 seats.
