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Converging Polls Indicate Race Remains As It Has Since Election Declared

With a week left before Israelis vote in the country’s January 22 election, converging polls indicate that the race remains as it has since the election was declared months ago: a center-right bloc anchored by the Likud-Beiteinu slate wielding about a dozen more seats than a fragmented center-left bloc. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-Beiteinu slate is still expected to win up to twice as many seats as the second-placed party, the center-left Labor. This week’s polls give Likud 33-35 seats and Labor on 16-17 in the 120-seat Knesset. Naftali Bennett’s Jewish Home party, which has been taking votes from the right of the Likud-Beiteinu slate, is expected to perform no better than third place. No poll this week has given the party more than 15 seats.