ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Poll: Majority of Israelis plan on repeating April election vote
by Mati Tuchfeld, i24NEWS, Israel Hayom Staff
August 23, 2019

In just four weeks’ time, Israelis will once again head to the ballot box to elect the next parliament, merely five months after the Knesset dissolved following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to form a governing coalition despite his party’s success in the April elections…According to a joint poll conducted by Israel Hayom and i24NEWS on Thursday, while the majority of Israelis say they will vote the same as they did in April, there remains a significant margin of voters who could potentially change their vote in this round of elections. READ MORE

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