election polls

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Globes business newspaper conference, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on December 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
How to read election polls, explained by an expert
When should you be suspicious of poll results? Can election polls really influence voter behavior? Do people lie to pollsters? Public opinion expert Dahlia Scheindlin has the answers. Public opinion polls get things wrong, and not only in Israel. They failed to predict the 2016 American presidential election, Brexit, the U.K. elections in 2015, and…
By Dahlia Scheindlin March 8, 2019
Labor MK Isaac Herzog. (photo: Activestills.org)
Final polls show Zionist Camp with biggest lead yet
Herzog and Livni may have the upper hand over Netanyahu, but even if they win the election, they won’t have an easy time putting together a coalition. The latest election polls published Friday show Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni’s Zionist Camp leading Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party by four seats. According to Project61, an independent…
By Edo Konrad March 14, 2015
Yair Lapid (photo: Yotam Ronen / Activestills.org)
Will surprising results stop a status-quo Netanyahu-led government?
Despite the surprising weakness of the Right-ultra-Orthodox bloc, the final result of the elections, according to exit polls, is still likely to be a status-quo Netanyahu-led government. Why? Because the big winner in this election, media personality Yair Lapid, is a vapid centrist who is likely to join Netanyahu’s coalition and make little noise on…
By Roi Maor January 22, 2013
Latest
Understanding Israeli election polls, part II
I would like to address some of the responses to my previous post (“It’s all about the blocs: Understanding Israeli election polls“), since they raise an important issue regarding the difference between an analysis of ideology and political behavior. Several readers challenged my use of the right vs. left division of the entire political system…
By Noam Sheizaf October 12, 2012
Most Read
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. Iran is acting more rationally than Israel — for now
  3. Six months after October 7, a lament for the paths not chosen
  4. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  5. Netanyahu isn't the only one interested in prolonging the war
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. Netanyahu isn't the only one interested in prolonging the war
  3. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  4. Iran is acting more rationally than Israel — for now
  5. ‘The colors and joy have disappeared’: Gazans return to decimated Khan Younis
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  3. The spiraling absurdity of Germany's pro-Israel fanaticism
  4. Even without a UN veto, Gaza remains hostage to American power
  5. Why do Israelis feel so threatened by a ceasefire?