{"id":367915,"date":"2026-03-31T17:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/367915\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:35:19","slug":"poll-netanyahu-gains-seats-bennett-weakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/367915\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Netanyahu gains seats, Bennett weakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-04b6d648=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">A new Knesset poll released Sunday by Kan News points to notable shifts in Israel\u2019s political landscape.<\/p>\n<p data-v-04b6d648=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s Likud continues to gain momentum, climbing to 28 seats, up from 25 in the previous survey.<\/p>\n<p data-v-04b6d648=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">Within the opposition, Naftali Bennett\u2019s party slips by one seat but still leads the bloc with 19. Meanwhile, Gadi Eizenkot\u2019s \u201cYashar!&#8221; surges by four seats to 13, becoming the second-largest opposition party. \u201cThe Democrats,&#8221; headed by Yair Golan, holds steady at 9 seats. Both Yair Lapid and Avigdor Lieberman see declines, polling at 7 and 8 seats respectively.<\/p>\n<p data-v-04b6d648=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">On the coalition side, Itamar Ben Gvir\u2019s Otzma Yehudit dips slightly to 8 seats, while Yitzhak Goldknopf\u2019s United Torah Judaism edges up to 8. Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi\u2019s Hadash-Ta\u2019al alliance also rises to 6 seats, and Mansour Abbas\u2019s Ra\u2019am remains unchanged at 5.<\/p>\n<p data-v-04b6d648=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">Several parties fall below the electoral threshold in this poll, including Benny Gantz\u2019s Blue and White, Yoaz Hendel\u2019s \u201cReservists,&#8221; Bezalel Smotrich\u2019s Religious Zionism, and the Arab Balad party. <\/p>\n<p data-v-04b6d648=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">Overall, Netanyahu\u2019s bloc inches up to 53 seats, compared to 51 previously, while the anti-Netanyahu camp reaches 56 seats without counting Arab parties. The poll also tested a scenario in which Arab factions reunite under a revived Joint List, which would secure a combined 13 seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Knesset poll released Sunday by Kan News points to notable shifts in Israel\u2019s political landscape. Benjamin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4410,85,46,177235,43,3168],"class_list":{"0":"post-367915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-knesset-poll","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-polls"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367915","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=367915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}