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Trump Backs Netanyahu in Surprise Post

After months of staying neutral in Israel's election campaign, President Donald Trump shared a poll showing Netanyahu's bloc in the lead

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President Donald Trump, who has carefully avoided taking sides in Israel's election race, shared an article overnight Tuesday on Truth Social that featured a poll projecting a majority for Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing bloc.

The Newsmax piece highlighted survey results published last week by Israel's Channel 13, which gave Likud 18 seats alongside 8 mandates for Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism. The haredi parties split 14 seats between them, while Ofer Winter's Amcha Yisrael reached 6 mandates, bringing the right-wing bloc to a total of 54 seats in the 120-member Knesset.

Trump's post
Trump's post (Screenshot from Truth Social)

On the opposition side, the poll awarded 22 seats to Gadi Eisenkot's Yisrael party, 12 to the joint Bennett-Lapid list, 10 to Yair Golan's Democrats, and 8 to Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beiteinu, totaling 50 mandates. The Arab parties received 8 seats for the Hadash-Ta'al-Balad alliance and another 6 for Ra'am, while both Hendel and Zelikha failed to cross the electoral threshold.

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