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On Tuesday night, Israeli voters rewarded politics addicts with the joy of a real shock. Not a single pre-election poll, among the scores conducted, predicted the scale of Yesh Atid’s success. What the published surveys were hiding was the very high number of undecideds among likely voters, with the pollsters unable to predict where those votes would end up.

The surveys had correctly shown that Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint Likud-Beiteinu list was haemorrhaging support but they underestimated by how much, and also how many votes were going to the centre-left, and not the right.

Read this article in full at the Jewish Chronicle.