On Sunday, February 8, a poll conducted by Israel’s Channel 10 television placed the Arab-Jewish Joint List, a unified ticket of Hadash and the Arab parties, in fourth place in the next elections with 13 Knesset seats. The poll predicted that the Likud and the Zionist Camp are currently tied with 23 seats each and that Naftali Bennett’s extreme-right Habayit HaYehudi is running third with 14 seats, having lost two seats since the channel’s previous survey.

Top three candidates from Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) on February 4 as they plant an olive tree in a Palestinian village for Tu B’Shevat (Jewish festival of trees). From left to right (and followed by their respective position in the Arab-Jewish Joint List): Ayman Odeh (number 1), MK Dov Khenin (8), and Aida Touma-Sliman (5). (Photo: Al-Ittihad)

According to the poll, both center parties, Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid and Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu, each would win 10 seats if the elections were held now. Aryeh Deri’s Shas and United Torah Judaism each would get six seats, while Meretz, Yisrael Beiteinu, and Eli Yishai’s Yahad (Ha’am Itanu) all stand at five seats.