Israel is in the midst of a particularly polarized period, even by the already divided standards of the only democracy in the Middle East. The distortion and subjugation of numbers, by the way, come from all sides.

The data is no more than a justification for what every surfer, presenter, tweeter and commentator thinks even before the first demonstrator leaves his home. If in some polls the projected number of seats in the current coalition hovered around 50, and in other polls the government actually scratches the 60 seats, this is just another political column, not a reliable sample of the population.