Preview New Wave/Ma'ariv Poll Results 9 January 2003
Aaron Lerner Date: 9 January 2003

The following are the results of a Ma'ariv poll by "New Wave" (a new polling
company formed by Yaacov Levy, the founder of the now defunct Gallup Israel)
carried out 8 January 2003:

Ma'ariv declines to share with the readers how many respondents refused to
reveal how they intended to vote and, in turn, how the "refuse reply" party
seats were allocated among the real parties.

Total population (including Israeli Arabs) sample of 1,000 sample error +/-
3 percentage points: [result from 1 January in [brackets]]

Knesset seats:

Right/Religious Bloc: Total 63- from 60 current Knesset [65]
Likud 30 [34] National Union/Ysrael Beiteinu 9 [9]
Shas 12 [9] NRP 4 [4] Yahadut Hatorah 5 [5] Herut 0 [0]
Yisrael B'Aliya 3 [4]

"Center" Total 16 from 13 current Knesset [14]
Shinui 14 [12] Am Echad 2 [2]
Different Israel 0 [0]

Left/Arabs: Total 41 from 47 current Knesset [40]
Labor/Meimad 22 [21] Meretz 8 [8]
Arab parties 11 [11] [includes Hadash -write up warns that this includes one
seat for Balad - 1.5% of vote is needed to pass the minimum threshold = 1.8
seats]

"Other" Total 0 from 0 current Knesset [1]
Aleh Yarok 0 [1] (Aleh Yarok has added legalization of prostitution to its
platform to legalize marijuana)

Ma'ariv 9 January 2003
As published on website
http://images.maariv.co.il/cache/ART414803.html

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
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