Labor are making a resurgence and Kadima which would usually split the left wing vote is going into meltdown with Kadima voters choosing Labor instead rather than back a dead horse. Yair Lapid is also poaching some Likud voters so it all adds up. If he choses to stand you add Kahlon and he is going to be taking more Likud votes and pretty soon the potential majority starts to fizzle away. Right now Bibi has got Liberman as his ace but if Kahlon stands and he is as popular as the polls are predicting even that might not be enough if Bibi wants a decent majority. If Khalon does stand because he has the backing of Likud activists and if Likud do poorly as a result then the activists can blame only themselves. Its time to start merging parties that share a similar ideology the way Bibi has done with Liberman because we have to many parties and we seem to get more new ones every election.

The jock is on PM Bibi, he is talking like a member of socker club:'He (Kahlon) promised me he'd stay in the Likud". Well, in first place, Bibi should share with us all the development; from the moment he told Kahlon that Likud is going to merge with Israel Beiteinu, (these guys arrived in Israel in the 90s, and hyjacked the whole system, its like they won a big LOtery Game?!!!), and what was the answer of Kahlon: like "Oh Bibi I don't speak Russian!!!, was it like that. So, PM Minister be a grown up, and behave as such. What would you do if Kahlon was the PM and would merge Shas with Likud?! a quandry, yes?!! Politics is what you might call a farce and a farce of possibilities.