According to the weekend polls released on Friday, March 6, by the daily newspaper Maariv and on Kol Israel (the Voice of Israel – public radio), the Joint List is still predicted to be the third largest parliamentary block following the upcoming general elections with 13 seats. The Panels Research poll conducted on Wednesday and Thursday for Maariv indicates that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress this week did not help the Likud cut the Zionist Union’s two-seat lead.