Polls

A new poll shows the bloc of Zionist parties opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu winning a governing majority on its own for the first time, a major shift in the political landscape ahead of elections that must be held by late October.  The survey, published Thursday by Zman Yisrael, a sister site of The Times of Israel, gives the anti-Netanyahu Zionist bloc 62 seats in the 120-member Knesset, one more than the 61 needed to form a government. The pro-Netanyahu bloc wins 50 seats, with the two mainly Arab parties, Ra’am and Hadash-Ta’al, taking the remaining 8.