Less than three weeks before the general election, Likud leads Kadima by four mandates, according to the results of two polls published Friday morning.
A Dahaf poll, conducted for Yediot Aharonot, gave Likud 29 seats, Kadima 25, Labor 17 and Yisrael Beiteinu 14. A second poll, conducted by Teleseker for Ma'ariv, predicted 28 mandates for Likud, 24 for Kadima and 16 for both Labor and Yisrael Beiteinu.
Meanwhile, Welfare and Social Services Minister Isaac Herzog, of Labor, repeated a claim previously made by Kadima that Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister would find it difficult to work with new US President Barack Obama. "Whoever thinks that it will be easy for Israel with Netanyahu as prime minister is wrong. It will be hard because it seems that Netanyahu's policies will be in direct contrast with those of Obama," Herzog told Army Radio. "That's how I see it." |