{"id":543393,"date":"2026-07-15T22:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543393\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:30:15","slug":"for-first-time-poll-shows-israeli-opposition-defeating-netanyahu-without-arab-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543393\/","title":{"rendered":"For First Time, Poll Shows Israeli Opposition Defeating Netanyahu Without Arab Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">For the first time, a poll has predicted that the Jewish opposition parties would win a majority of seats in the Knesset and would not need an Arab party to form a government.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The poll, released by Channel 13 television Wednesday night, found that the governing coalition was losing seats, and would win only 50 altogether were the election held today. <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" target=\"_router\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/elections\/2026-07-15\/ty-article\/.premium\/sources-netanyahu-govt-seeks-to-limit-expats-from-flying-into-israel-to-vote\/0000019f-66aa-de8e-afff-f7fa0d170000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Arab parties <\/a>would win nine seats \u2013 two fewer than in the previous polls \u2013 and the Jewish opposition parties would win the remaining 61.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">In another first, the poll found that a new party led by Yoaz Hendel and Chili Tropper would win the four seats needed to enter the Knesset. Previous polls had shown the party failing to cross the electoral threshold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/elections\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Elex HQ banner mobile\" width=\"2122\" height=\"708\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784154615_194_1200x400.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz xt7dq6l x193iq5w xh8yej3\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haaretz PodcastRep. Ro Khanna to Haaretz: \u2018I\u2019m more disturbed by Israel\u2019s lies\u2019 than being detained in West Bank<\/p>\n<p>play<\/p>\n<p>Haaretz Podcast<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ro Khanna to Haaretz: \u2018I\u2019m more disturbed by Israel\u2019s lies\u2019 than being detained in West Bank<\/p>\n<p>Volume: 0.5<\/p>\n<p>X1<\/p>\n<p>total&#8211; : &#8211;time0:00<\/p>\n<p>fast forward15<\/p>\n<p>play<\/p>\n<p>rewind15<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The ruling <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" target=\"_router\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/haaretz-today\/2026-07-13\/ty-article\/.highlight\/after-two-decades-of-netanyahu-the-likud-party-no-longer-exists\/0000019f-5beb-d19c-addf-7fff6d8d0000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Likud party <\/a>remained the largest one with 22 seats, unchanged from the previous poll.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Gadi Eisenkot&#8217;s Yashar party lost two seats, falling to 21, while the Together party led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid held steady at 15 seats. The Democrats gained a seat, to 11, while Yisrael Beiteinu gained two seats, to 10.<\/p>\n<p>Related Articles<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">United Torah Judaism remained at eight seats, but Shas, the other ultra-Orthodox party, lost three seats, winning only seven.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Otzma Yehudit also won seven seats, one less than in the previous poll. In contrast, Religious Zionism gained a seat, rising to six.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Among the Arab parties, <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" target=\"_router\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/2026-07-14\/ty-article-opinion\/.premium\/israel-sows-social-division-by-excluding-arab-parties\/0000019f-5d0f-d0b9-ab9f-7f7f8e360000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hadash-Ta&#8217;al and United Arab List <\/a>each lost a seat, falling to five and four seats, respectively. The third Arab party, Balad, failed to cross the electoral threshold, winning just 2.0 percent of the vote. Benny Gantz&#8217;s Kahol Lavan similarly failed to make it into the Knesset, wining just 0.8 percent of the vote. Both parties had also failed to enter the Knesset in previous polls.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The poll was conducted by the Madad in cooperation with the Midgam, Askaria and Statnet companies. It did not say how many of the people questioned actually responded or a provide a margin of error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time, a poll has predicted that the Jewish opposition parties would win a majority of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,33438,42,2649,954,14406,21141,953,43,62534,40,38,41,39,68793,19344],"class_list":["post-543393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-benny-gantz","tag-headlines","tag-israeli-elections","tag-israeli-politics","tag-knesset","tag-likud","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-news","tag-shas","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-torah-judaism","tag-yair-lapid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543393","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=543393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}