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With the Knesset likely to disband within the next few weeks, a new poll shows the Likud party widening its lead on Naftali Bennett’s Yamina. In the survey, which was conducted by Channel 12 and published on Saturday, the Likud received 30 seats, the highest the ruling party has gotten since August. Naftali Bennett’s Yamina is close behind at 20 seats, a drop of 3 from a slew of surveys conducted earlier this month. Coming in at third place is Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party with 18 seats, with the Arab Joint List getting 13, two less than the 15 it has today in the Knesset. Benny Gantz’s Blue and White fell to only 9 seats, while both the Shas and UTJ haredi parties got 8 in this newest poll. Labor, the Jewish Home, and Derech Eretz are all far beneath the electoral threshold and would not enter the Knesset had elections be held today. Overall, the right wing and haredi factions had 66 seats between them, easily giving Netanyahu another term in power should Yamina continue to support him. The survey indicates that the Likud is succeeding in returning disgruntled voters back to the fold from Yamina. The Religious Zionist party had soared in the polls, reaching as much as 25 seats from its current six due to public anger with Netanyahu’s handling of the coronavirus. With the current national unity government on the verge of collapse, Netanyahu has urged Likud lawmakers to attack Yamina’s Naftali Bennett at every opportunity to halt the latter’s rise in the polls. Bennett has vowed not to support Netanyahu as prime minister in the next election, making Yamina the main obstacle for Netanyahu’s quest to remain Israel’s longest-serving elected leader.
Saudi Arabia is reportedly waiting for Joe Biden to be inaugurated in January before normalizing relations with Israel. The Saudi royal family has come under heavy pressure by the Trump administration to follow the UAE and Bahrain in establishing diplomatic ties with the Jewish State. As part of these efforts, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brokered a meeting between Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) and Prime Minister Netanyahu in the Saudi city of Neom last week. The summit, and the effort in general, has failed to yield results, with Saudi royals reiterating that it can only recognize Israel following the establishment of a Palestinian State. But a new report says that MBS is holding off on recognizing Israel until Biden is sworn in as president in order to reap dividends such a move would bring with the new U.S. administration. According to the Wall Street Journal report, Riyadh wants to use normalization as a means to resist pressure by the Biden administration on issues such as human rights. Biden had taken a harsh line on Saudi Arabia in the past on a wide range of issues, including its involvement in the bloody civil war in Yemen and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. With the Biden administration expected to be hostile to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is counting on the goodwill it will receive by handing it a diplomatic triumph to resist Washington on other points of contention. Quoting senior advisors to the Kingdom, the newspaper said that inking a historic deal with the Jewish State under Biden’s tutelage “could put relations between the Biden administration and Riyadh on surer footing.” “Normalization…is a carrot to get [Biden’s] focus away from other is-
