{"id":180666,"date":"2025-12-12T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/180666\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:33:08","slug":"poll-netanyahus-likud-largest-party-in-knesset-but-coalition-still-lacks-majority-in-case-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/180666\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Netanyahu’s Likud Largest Party in Knesset, but Coalition Still Lacks Majority in Case of Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Likud would be the largest party in the Knesset with 27 seats if elections were to be held currently, a Channel 12 News poll released Thursday shows, gaining two more than in the previous survey.<\/p>\n

The far-right Otzma Yehudit party also picked up two seats, rising to eight from six last week. The Religious Zionism party led by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, however, again fell below the 3.25 percent electoral threshold after earning four seats in the previous poll.<\/p>\n

As in the last survey, the opposition parties held steady at 69 seats, while the coalition remained at 51. <\/p>\n

Channel 12 News poll, Thursday, December 11, 2025LikudBennett 2026The DemocratsShasYesh AtidYisrael Beitenu Otzma YehuditUnited Torah JudaismYasharHadash-Ta’alUnited Arab ListBaladKahol LavanReligious ZionismThe ReservistsChannel 12 News, conducted by the Midgam Institute and Manu Geva in collaboration with iPanel<\/p>\n

The Bennett 2026 party, led by former prime minister Naftali Bennett, is the second-largest in the poll with 22 seats, up one from last week<\/a>. The third-largest party, the Democrats, led by Yair Golan, dropped one seat to 11.<\/p>\n

Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu, ultra-Orthodox Shas and Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid all held steady at nine seats, similiar to the previous poll. <\/p>\n

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Also unchanged from the previous poll: the Yashar! party led by Gadi Eisenkot remains at eight seats, United Torah Judaism holds at seven, and both Hadash-Ta’al and the United Arab List remain at five seats each.<\/p>\n

Kahol Lavan, led by Benny Gantz, Balad and the Reservists party all remain below the electoral threshold. <\/p>\n

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The Channel 12 News poll was conducted by the Midgam Institute and Manu Geva in collaboration with iPanel, based on responses from 503 participants who constitute a representative sample of the entire adult population of Israel aged 18 and over. The margin of error is +4.4 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Likud would be the largest party in the Knesset with 27 seats if elections were to be held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1982,42,2649,954,14406,21141,953,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-180666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bezalel-smotrich","tag-headlines","tag-israeli-elections","tag-israeli-politics","tag-knesset","tag-likud","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}