New Poll Shows Eisenkot Rising to 20 Seats as Bennett-Lapid Fall to 17
A new Channel 13 mandate poll published Wednesday night shows Gadi Eisenkot continuing to gain strength, while Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid’s Beyachad party continues to fall.
A new Channel 13 mandate poll published Wednesday night shows Gadi Eisenkot continuing to gain strength, while Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid’s Beyachad party continues to fall.
According to the poll, Eisenkot’s Yashar party rises to 20 seats, solidifying its position as one of the strongest forces in the anti-Netanyahu camp. Beyachad, led by Bennett and Lapid, drops sharply to just 17 seats.
Likud, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, remains the largest party with 22 seats. The gap between Eisenkot and Bennett, which stood at only one seat in previous polls, has now widened to three.
In the center-left bloc, the Democrats, led by Yair Golan, receive 11 seats, while Yisrael Beytenu, led by Avigdor Liberman, also receives 11.
Among the Arab parties, Hadash-Ta’al receives 6 seats, while Ra’am, led by Mansour Abbas, stands at the electoral threshold with 4 seats.
On the right, Otzma Yehudit, led by Itamar Ben Gvir, receives 8 seats. Religious Zionism, led by Bezalel Smotrich, also hovers at the electoral threshold with 4 seats.
The Reservists’ Party, Balad and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White all fail to cross the threshold.
The Charedi parties remain relatively stable. Shas, led by Aryeh Deri, receives 9 seats, while United Torah Judaism receives 8. Together, the two Charedi parties reach 17 seats, making them a significant force in any future coalition negotiations.
In bloc terms, the current opposition camp led by Eisenkot reaches 59 seats, just two short of the majority needed to form a government. Netanyahu’s current coalition bloc receives 51 seats, while the Arab parties hold 10 seats.
The poll points to a continued shift inside the anti-Netanyahu camp, with Eisenkot gaining momentum and Bennett losing the advantage he held for months. If the trend continues, the central question of the campaign may no longer be whether Bennett can lead the bloc, but whether Eisenkot can turn his rise in the polls into a path to forming the next government.