UK sanctions on West Bank settlements have handed Netanyahu an electoral boost days before Israel's deadlocked election, a poll shows
Benjamin Netanyahu faces a deadlocked election on 27 October, with Arab parties holding enough seats to hand the opposition a majority if it joins forces with them.
Some 28 per cent of Israelis say the sanctions make them more likely to back a party putting security first, against 18 per cent less likely. Another 20 per cent now lean towards leaders who support settlements. Merlin Strategies surveyed more than 800 Israelis for the pro-Israel group Elnet. Israel votes on Tuesday, with Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar narrowly ahead of Likud and neither near 61 seats.
Benjamin Netanyahu told Israelis to prepare for banking sanctions and floated cryptocurrency as a workaround.
The Bank of Israel said crypto 'cannot be used as a route for bypassing sanctions'.
Top economists warned that Israelis could lose the use of credit cards, Amazon and AliExpress.
