{"id":500425,"date":"2026-06-19T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500425\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:36:08","slug":"gadi-eisenkot-ties-benjamin-netanyahu-at-21-seats-as-opposition-gains-61-seat-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500425\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadi Eisenkot ties Benjamin Netanyahu at 21 seats, as opposition gains 61-seat majority"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yashar party, led by Gadi Eisenkot<\/a>, has overtaken Naftali Bennett’s Together and tied with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud for seats for the first time, according to a Maariv\u00a0poll published on Friday.<\/p>\n

Since the start of Operation Roaring Lion, Likud has been on a steady decline, currently polling at only 21 seats.<\/p>\n

It found that the opposition bloc, excluding the Arab parties, would hold a majority of 61 seats, whilst the current Government coalition would have only 49 seats.<\/p>\n

Although Smotrich’s party, Religious Zionism, is now polling at a level that would pass the electoral threshold, the poll revealed that the coalition still appears to lack enough support to form a majority.<\/p>\n

Since the outbreak of war with Iran, Likud has lost 7 seats, but it’s not just the current coalition\u00a0losing seats; since the merger between former prime minister Naftali Bennett and opposition leader Yair Lapid<\/a> at the end of April, their combined party, Together,\u00a0has lost 11 seats, while Yesh Atid has gained 9.<\/p>\n

Maariv’s poll found that if Yashar and Together united under Eisenkot’s leadership, they would win 37 seats, 4 fewer seats than they are currently predicted to win running separately.<\/p>\n

They also found that Yashar and Together uniting under Eisenkot are expected to receive 4 more seats than if they unified under Bennett<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The poll found that 49% of Israelis are concerned about the current rift<\/a> between Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, compared with 43% who aren’t.<\/p>\n

The poll suggests growing voter dissatisfaction with both Likud and Bennett’s alliance, with Eisenkot’s Yashar emerging as a major beneficiary and the opposition regaining a potential majority.<\/p>\n

The poll, conducted June 10\u201311 by Lazar Research under Dr. Menachem Lazar, in cooperation with Panel4ALL, included 501 respondents, representing a representative sample of Israel\u2019s adult population, Jewish and Arab, aged 18 and over. The maximum sampling error is 4.4%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yashar party, led by Gadi Eisenkot, has overtaken Naftali Bennett’s Together and tied with Prime Minister Benjamin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,4410,955,42,14406,953,43,17154,40,38,41,39,19344],"class_list":["post-500425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-elections","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-headlines","tag-knesset","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-news","tag-poll","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-yair-lapid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500425","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=500425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}