Netanyahu's Right-Wing Bloc Strains as Likud Slides, Eisenkot Surges Ahead of List Deadline
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Netanyahu's right-wing bloc strains as Likud slides, Eisenkot surges ahead of list deadline
Likud is sliding, Eisenkot is surging, and the right is splintering. The Deep Dive maps the frantic scramble before Israel's parties lock in their final Knesset lists next week.
The results of an opinion poll published by Channel 13 of Israel today, Thursday, show that the chances of the party bloc supporting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opposition bloc in the upcoming Knesset elections are clearly different from most recent polls, while the two blocs remain far from achieving the majority of Knesset seats.
Israel: The Yashar Party, led by Gadi Eisenkot, continues to outnumber Likud in terms of the number of mandates received: Yashar 22, Likud 21, but for the first time the coalition and opposition receive 53 mandates.
2026 Elections | As in a long line of recent polls, the current poll also shows that there is a majority for the government's opponents - but the boycott of the Arab parties by some of the parties in the Eisenkot bloc leaves the Eisenkot bloc with 53 seats, like the Netanyahu bloc
A News 13 poll gives 6 seats to Smotrich and Feiglin and 4 more to Winter, and together the right-wing bloc equals the left-wing bloc for the first time with 53 seats. The Arabs jump to 14 seats
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