Channel 12’s Amit Segal still deems his channel’s poll “dramatic,” and other channels also hype up their results, which show Sa’ar’s New Hope getting between 15 and 18 seats, making it the second or third largest party. Blue and White meanwhile drops to a paltry six or seven seats.
The entry of another right wing party that is supposedly anti-Netanyahu forces some interesting bloc-making by the journalists trying to analyze the results of the polls.
Kan for instance sticks ultra-hawkish secular party Yisrael Beytenu in the center-left-Arab camp, since it can’t find any other place for it.
Most channels take it as a given that Sa’ar will not join Netanyahu, putting him and all his votes in the “anti-Netanyahu” bloc.