Israeli opinion polls show Benny Gantz's opposition party surging forward

— Anshel Pfeffer (@AnshelPfeffer) January 30, 2019

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud still leads all polls and was this week hovering between 29 and 31 seats, around the number it won in 2015.

But another survey, for the Israeli news site Walla! by Panel Politics, suggested for the first time that right-wing and religious parties may not take enough seats to provide the Israeli Prime Minister with a workable majority, a scenario that could drive him to centrist parties for support.

There is still time for the smaller factions to create alliances: Israeli parties have a fortnight to file their lists of candidates with the country’s electoral board.