{"id":551606,"date":"2026-07-21T02:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/551606\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:57:16","slug":"poll-eisenkots-yashar-edges-likud-opposition-still-needs-arab-parties-for-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/551606\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Eisenkot’s Yashar Edges Likud, Opposition Still Needs Arab Parties for Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Channel 12 News poll released Monday evening shows Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party gaining one seat since the network’s previous poll, putting it in first place with 24 seats. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud also picked up a seat, rising to 23.<\/p>\n

The overall balance of power remains unchanged, with the opposition bloc holding 69 seats compared with 51 for the coalition. However, the Jewish opposition parties<\/a> still cannot form a majority without support from the Arab parties.<\/p>\n

Naftali Bennett’s Beyahad party lost one seat, dropping to 15, while the Democrats gained a seat to reach 11. Yisrael Beiteinu lost two seats, falling to nine.<\/p>\n

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Otzma Yehudit remained unchanged at eight seats, the same number held by Shas and United Torah Judaism. Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism <\/a>slipped by one seat and now sits at four, just above the electoral threshold. Among the Arab parties, Hadash-Ta’al and the United Arab List each won five seats.<\/p>\n

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Several parties failed to clear the electoral threshold, including the joint list headed by Yoaz Hendel and Chili Tropper (2.7 percent), Benny Gantz’s Kahol Lavan (2.6 percent), and Balad (1.7 percent). All three also failed to pass the threshold in the network’s previous poll.<\/p>\n

The poll was conducted by Mano Geva’s Midgam Institute through telephone and online surveys of 507 respondents. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Channel 12 News poll released Monday evening shows Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party gaining one seat since the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,13135,955,134379,42,58195,954,21141,953,43,40,38,41,39,250524,221587],"class_list":["post-551606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-democrats","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-hadash","tag-headlines","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-israeli-politics","tag-likud","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-arab-list","tag-yashar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551606","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=551606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}