If IDF former Chief of Staff Benny Gantz ran for prime minister, more Israelis would support him than current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a Chanel 2 poll broadcast Saturday.
The poll conducted by Dr. Mina Tzemach and Mano Geva pitted Netanyahu against various candidates for prime minister, and only Gantz surpassed him, with 44 percent choosing him rather than 32% for Netanyahu.
If Gantz were to run as the head of a center-left party, the margin between him and Netanyahu narrows to 4%, with 41% preferring the former chief of staff and 37% choosing Netanyahu.
Gantz has more than two years left to his legally mandated cooling- off period before he can run for the Knesset.
A plurality of those polled (44%) supported leaving the three-year waiting period for former senior officers, while 34.4% called to shorten it, 10.3% to lengthen it and 10.6% didn’t know.
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) has the lowest support, according to the poll, with 28% as opposed to 51% for Netanyahu against him, and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid would have 32% of the vote if he ran head-to-head against Netanyahu, who would get 46%.
Former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi, who has been embroiled in investigations of abuse of power allegations in recent years, would have 29% on his side if he ran against Netanyahu, who would receive 41%.
Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin, who has said he does not want to run for politics, got 30% support as opposed to 39% for Netanyahu.
Truth is the way to make Israel safe is to win the conflict. Israel has the military power to make this happen. So far
no leader has been willing to buck the international community and drive out the Palestinians who attack it.
The Russians are showing how you can win an area without much ground forces. You literally flatten it. Israel is not Russia and does not have its own veto in the UN.
It is ploy to concoct a story to portray as “news”, for ratings and to show the media is still relevant. Actually it only proves that the leftists in the media are up to the same old tried and proven dirty tricks. In case you tv numbskulls failed to notice, Netanyahu won an election within the last year, by a plurality and he will remain in office until Obama is out.
The poll is put on by Gantz’s people to assess his chances for entering politics in earnest. Gantz’s appears to be a low energy guy except when it comes to kissing a combina.
The left has no solution to keep Israel safe. The Pal will never accept any peace of any kind.
Dayan, Rabin, Sharon all generals end-up making costly mistakes. Does Israel needs more of those?
Polls before people are actually candidates and publicly vetted are pretty unreliable at best and can be close to meaningless.
Lahav, author of the article, tweeted herself that these type of polls must be taken with a grain of salt.
Now, this is really funny. Either this is Another gigantic pile of manure made up by the “combina” or it was concocted by alert people.
Even a boulder knows that Gantze klum was fished out of the sewers as a stop gap to conceal the fight among the Oslo generals to block the way to another disgrace now as usual passing as a politician.
Gantz was chatting with his Islamic pals in Gaza not long ago…