Poll: Majority don’t want Netanyahu to run for reelection

Sixty-one percent of Israelis ages 18 and above do not want Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to run as a candidate, compared to 35 percent who do, a May 31–June 5 poll by the center-left Israel Democracy Institute shows. Fifty-seven percent of Jewish-Israeli respondents and 83 percent of Arab-Israeli respondents said Netanyahu shouldn’t run. Prime Minister Netanyahu is running regardless. The poll surveyed only 753 people, below the usual benchmark of 1,000 that many analysts consider representative, but it indicates that the prime minister faces an uphill battle to remain Israel’s leader.