Khaled Yousef<\/p>\n
25 June 2026\u2022Update: 25 June 2026<\/p>\n
Former Israeli army chief and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot has pulled ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a new Israeli opinion poll published Wednesday amid declining support for opposition figures Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett.<\/p>\n
According to the poll aired by Israel\u2019s Channel 13, Eisenkot was viewed as more suitable for the premiership than Netanyahu by 43% of respondents compared to 39% for the Israeli premier.<\/p>\n
The survey also showed Eisenkot leading Bennett by 42% to 21%, while Netanyahu outperformed Bennett by 44% to 41%.<\/p>\n
If parliamentary elections were held today, Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party would win 23 seats, while Eisenkot\u2019s opposition Yashar party would secure 20 seats, according to the poll.<\/p>\n
The survey showed a further decline for the opposition alliance led by Lapid and Bennett, which would receive 15 seats.<\/p>\n
Overall, Netanyahu\u2019s ruling coalition would obtain 53 seats in the 120-member Knesset compared to 57 seats for opposition parties, while Arab parties would secure 10 seats.<\/p>\n
Channel 13 did not disclose the survey\u2019s date, sample size or margin of error. It said the poll was supervised by a team of researchers including Shmuel Rosner, Yosef Maklada, Dr. Ariel Ayalon, Dori Dror and Prof. David Steinberg.<\/p>\n
The findings come amid intensifying political debate in Israel over the country\u2019s wars, security policy and future leadership ahead of any potential elections.<\/p>\n
A separate poll published Friday by the Maariv newspaper showed the opposition would be capable of forming a government if elections were held today, winning 61 seats compared to 49 for Netanyahu\u2019s bloc.<\/p>\n
*Writing by Tarek Chouiref<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khaled Yousef 25 June 2026\u2022Update: 25 June 2026 Former Israeli army chief and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-509811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509811","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=509811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}