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Polls forecast election deadlock: pro- and anti-Netanyahu blocs split

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Published: 11 March 2021

Last updated: 4 March 2024

For the first time, a right-wing PM could emerge from Likud's rivals; left-wing Meretz makes desperate appeals to LGBTQ, Israeli Arabs to cross electoral threshold

Poll forecasts deadlock after election, with blocs split 60-60 (Times of Israel)
TV survey indicates neither side will have clear path to majority if Yamina backs Netanyahu; 4 parties near electoral threshold

As Israel heads to fourth election in two years, poll predicts political deadlock (Haaretz)
Channel 12 News poll shows right-wing party Yamina making some gains, four parties teetering on the verge of the electoral threshold

As Netanyahu hits a wall with voters, this one is about the best of the rest (Middle East Eye)
For the first time, a right-wing prime minister could emerge from Likud's rivals – a scenario that promises neither stability nor progress

Clawing at electoral threshold, Meretz makes desperate appeals to LGBTQ, Israeli Arab communities (Haaretz)
The left-wing party fears that the controversial remarks by one of its Knesset candidates, an Israeli Arab, on LGBTQ rights will chase away potential voters

Israel Elections: Gantz could become PM on Nov. 17 or be fired March 24 (Jerusalem Post)
It may not even matter whether the Blue and White Party makes it into the Knesset in the March 23 election

Photo: Election campaign posters in the southern city of Rahat (Eliyahu Hershkovitz)
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