Israel: Likud Leads Kadima, Labour 3rd

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

	Jan. 29	Jan. 22	Jan. 15
Likud (Consolidation)	28	28	28
Kadima (Forward)	23	24	26
Labour	17	16	17
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	16	16	14
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	10	9	9
Vitality-Together (Meretz-Yachad)	6	6	5
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	5	6	5
Jewish Home (Habayit Hayehudi)	4	4	3
National Union (HaIhud HaLeumi)	3	2	3
Arab parties	8	9	10

Source: Teleseker / Maariv
Methodology: Interviews with 600 Israeli adults, conducted on Jan. 29, 2009. Margin of error is 3.5 per cent.

Israel: Likud Increases Lead Over Kadima

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

	Jan. 18	Jan. 13	Jan. 6
Likud (Consolidation)	31	28	32
Kadima (Forward)	23	26	25
Labour	15	16	17
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	13	14	10
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	12	10	10
Vitality-Together (Meretz-Yachad)	6	6	6
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	5	5	5
Jewish Home (Habayit Hayehudi)	3	3	4
National Union (HaIhud HaLeumi)	1	2	2
Green Party (Yerukim)	1	--	--
Retired People’s Party (Gil)	1	--	--

Source: Maagar Mochot / Channel 2
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 512 Israeli adults, conducted on Jan. 18, 2008. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.

Israel: Likud and Kadima Tied

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

	Jan. 1	Dec. 10	Oct. 26
Likud (Consolidation)	28	35	29
Kadima (Forward)	28	21	31
Labour	16	15	11
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	12	11	11
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	11	12	8
Vitality-Together (Meretz-Yachad)	6	6	5
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	5	7	4
Jewish Home (National Union and NRP)	4	4	7
Green Party (Yerukim)	--	--	3
Arab parties	10	10	11

Source: Teleseker / Maariv
Methodology: Interviews with 800 Israeli adults, conducted on Jan. 1, 2009. Margin of error is 3.5 per cent.

Israel: Likud Leads Kadima, Labour Gains Momentum

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

	Dec. 31	Nov. 18
Likud (Consolidation)	32	34
Kadima (Forward)	27	28
Labour	16	10
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	11	10
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	9	10
Vitality-Together (Meretz-Yachad)	7	7
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	5	6
Jewish Home (National Union and NRP)	3	4
Arab parties	10	11

Source: Dialog / Haaretz
Methodology: Interviews with 472 Israeli adults, conducted on Dec. 31, 2008. Margin of error is 5 per cent.

Israel: Likud Leads Kadima, Shas 3rd

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

	Dec. 2008	Nov. 2008	Oct. 2008
Likud (Consolidation)	31	32	26
Kadima (Forward)	24	26	29
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	11	11	11
Labour	11	8	11
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	10	9	9
Vitality-Together (Meretz-Yachad)	7	7	6
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	7	7	7
Jewish Home (National Union and NRP)	6	6	7
Green Party (Yerukim)	3	3	2
Gil (Retired People’s Party)	--	--	2
Arab parties	10	11	10

Source: Dahaf Institute / Yediot Ahronot
Methodology: Interviews with 503 Israeli adults, conducted on Dec. 9, 2008. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.

Israel: Likud, Kadima Continue to Lead the Field

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

	Nov. 2008	Oct. 2008
Likud (Consolidation)	32	26
Kadima (Forward)	26	29
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	11	11
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	9	9
Labour	8	11
Vitality-Together (Meretz-Yachad)	7	6
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	7	7
Jewish Home (National Union and NRP)	6	7
Green Party (Yerukim)	3	2
Gil (Retired People’s Party)	--	2
Arab parties	11	10

Source: Dahaf Institute / Yediot Ahronot
Methodology: Interviews with 500 Israeli adults, conducted on Nov. 19, 2008. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.

Israel: Likud Leads, Labour Plummets to Tie With Shas

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

Likud (Consolidation)	34
Kadima (Forward)	28
Labour	10
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	10
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	10
Vitality-Together (Meretz-Yachad)	7
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	6
Jewish Home (National Union and NRP)	4
Arab parties	11

Source: Dialog / Haaretz
Methodology: Interviews with 488 Israeli adults, conducted on Nov. 18, 2008. Margin of error is 5 per cent.

Israel: Likud & Kadima Top Parties, Labour Marginalized

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

	Oct. 2008	Mar. 2008	Nov. 2007
Likud (Consolidation)	25	26	31
Kadima (Forward)	22	16	13
Labour	16	19	20
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	10	11	9
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	11	11	10
National Union (Ikhud) and Mafdal (National Religious Party)	7	8	9
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	6	6	7
Vitality-Together (Meretz-Yachad)	5	6	7
Green Party (Yerukim)	2	4	--
Gil (Retired People’s Party)	1	--	--
Arab Parties	9	10	10
Social Justice (Tzedek Hevrati	--	3	4

Source: Shvakim Panorama / Israel Radio
Methodology: Interviews with 510 Israeli adults, conducted on Oct. 29, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

Israelis Want An Advancing of Elections

Given the political situation that has developed, what would you prefer? A national emergency government headed by a leader chosen from Kadima that includes Kadima, Labour and Likud, or advancing the elections?

Elections	54%
Emergency government	26%
Other	20%

Source: Maagar Mochot / Israel Radio
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 508 Israeli adults, conducted on May 28, 2008. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.

Israel: Likud, Labour Down; Kadima Up

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

	Mar. 2008	Nov. 2007
Likud (Consolidation)	26	31
Labour	19	20
Kadima (Forward)	16	13
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	11	9
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	11	10
National Union (Ikhud) and Mafdal (National Religious Party)	8	9
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	6	7
Vitality-Together (Meretz-Yachad)	6	7
Green Party (Yerukim)	4	--
Social Justice (Tzedek Hevrati)	3	4
Arab Parties	10	10
Gil (Retired People’s Party)	--	--

Source: Shvakim Panorama / Israel Radio
Methodology: Interviews with 508 Israeli adults, conducted on Mar. 26, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

Israel: Likud Enjoys Lead Over Labour, Kadima

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

	Feb. 2008	Nov. 2007	Jul. 2007
Likud (Consolidation)	27	29	25
Labour	19	22	23
Kadima (Forward)	14	12	11
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	11	10	11
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	10	8	7
National Union (Ikhud) and Mafdal (National Religious Party)	8	7	8
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	7	6	6
Together (Yachad)	5	5	5
Green Party (Yerukim)	3	3	3
Gil (Retired People’s Party)	3	--	2
Social Justice (Tzedek Hevrati)	3	--	2
Arab parties	10	10	10
Turnaround (Tafnit)	--	--	2

Source: Dahaf Institute / Yediot Ahronot
Methodology: Interviews with 500 Israeli adults, conducted on Feb. 28, 2008. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.

Israelis Barely Support Joint Likud-Kadima Government

Do you support the Likud joining in a national emergency government headed by Ehud Olmert with Benjamin Netanyahu as treasury minister?

Yes	45.5%
No	43.2%
Other	11.3%

Should Ami Ayalon join the government?

Yes	46.7%
No	30.9%
Other	22.4%

Source: Shvakim Panorama / Israel Radio
Methodology: Interviews with 501 Israeli adults, conducted on Jun. 26, 2007. No margin of error was provided.

Israel: Labour Only 2 Knesset Seats Behind Likud in Poll

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

Likud (Consolidation)	27
Labour	25
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	11
Kadima (Forward)	9
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	9
National Union (Ikhud) and Mafdal (National Religious Party)	8
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	6
Together (Yachad)	5
Gil (Retired People’s Party)	3
Arab parties	10
Undecided	7

Source: Dahaf Institute / Yediot Ahronot
Methodology: Interviews with 503 Israeli adults, conducted on Jun. 14, 2007. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.

Israel: Likud Continues to Hold Strong Lead

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

	May 2007	Mar. 2007
Likud (Consolidation)	33	32
Labour	16	16
Kadima (Forward)	16	15
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	12	10
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	9	12
National Union (Ikhud) and Mafdal (National Religious Party)	9	10
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	6	6
Together (Yachad)	6	5
Gil (Retired People’s Party)	3	4
Arab parties	10	10

Source: Maagar Mochot / Makor Rishon
Methodology: Interviews with 500 Israeli adults, conducted on May 2, 2007. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.

Israel Wants Netanyahu as Prime Minister

Who would you prefer as prime minister?

Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud)	26%
Shimon Peres (Kadima)	11%
Tzipi Livni (Kadima)	10%
Ehud Barak (Labour)	6%
Ehud Olmert (Kadima)	6%
Ami Ayalon (Labour)	5%

Source: Dialog / Haaretz
Methodology: Interviews with 500 Israeli adults, conducted on May 1, 2007. Margin of error is 4.9 per cent.

Israel: Likud Still Far Ahead

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

Likud (Consolidation)	32
Labour	16
Kadima (Forward)	15
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	12
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	10
National Union (Ikhud) and Mafdal (National Religious Party)	10
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	6
Together (Yachad)	5
Gil (Retired People’s Party)	4
Arab parties	10

Source: Maagar Mochot / Channel 10
Methodology: Interviews with 520 Israeli adults, conducted on Mar. 26, 2007. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.

Israel: Likud Continues to Have Strong Lead

Prospective results of a Knesset election
(Results presented in seats)

	Mar. 2007	Nov. 2006
Likud (Consolidation)	35	29
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	16	14
Kadima (Forward)	13	18
Labour	13	12
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	9	10
National Union (Ikhud) and Mafdal (National Religious Party)	9	9
Together (Yachad)	6	7
Gil (Retired People’s Party)	4	6
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	5	5
Arab parties	10	10

Source: Teleseker / Maariv
Methodology: Interviews with 460 Israeli adults, conducted on Mar. 22, 2007. Margin of error is 4.3 per cent.

Israel: Likud Leads by Large Margin

Prospective results of a Knesset election with Kadima led by Ehud Olmert
(Results presented in seats)

	Mar. 2007	Feb. 2007
Likud (Consolidation)	28	27
Labour	16	14
Kadima (Forward)	15	11
Party headed by Arcadi Gaydamak	13	14
International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas)	10	10
National Union (Ikhud) and Mafdal (National Religious Party)	10	10
Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu)	7	8
Yahadut Hatorah (United Torah Judaism)	6	6
Together (Yachad)	5	5
Gil (Retired People’s Party)	4	5
Arab parties	10	10

Source: Maagar Mochot / Makor Rishon
Methodology: Interviews with 500 Israeli adults, conducted on Mar. 15, 2007. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.