Electoral security/ War influence

Three election polls published on Thursday night and Friday placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party one seat ahead of Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni’s Zionist Camp for the first time in weeks

The results followed a deadly strike by Hezbollah on the northern border with Lebanon Wednesday, which killed two IDF soldiers, and came shortly after the Knesset parties finalized their slates for the March 2015 elections.

According to a Maariv poll, the Likud party was projected to receive 25 seats, and the Zionist Camp 24. Some 52 percent of respondents said they trust Netanyahu on security matters, 59% expressed confidence in Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, and 85% said they trusted the Israel Defense Forces. Ya’alon was also seen to be the favored candidate for defense minister at 25%, followed by Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett at 17%, and Zionist Camp’s retired general Amos Yadlin at 14%

 After Hezbollah strike,polls put Likud in the lead