An exit poll from Israel’s public broadcaster Kan published late Tuesday indicated that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc could win a slim majority of 61 Knesset seats. The exit poll accorded Netanyahu’s Likud 31 seats, while estimating that its main rival, Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid, would get 18. Under this scenario, Netanyahu could, in theory, establish a majority coalition by partnering with the ultra-Orthodox Shas, the ultra-Orthodox Yahadut Hatorah, the national religious party of Bezalel Smotrich and the pro-settler Yamina party led by Naftali Bennett.
When it came to the "anyone-but-Netanyahu" camp, some surprises were registered as exit polls contradicted many of the public opinion polls published until March 19.
