{"id":624378,"date":"2026-09-22T23:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624378\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:58:14","slug":"israel-election-poll-eisenkots-bloc-beats-netanyahu-as-likud-gains-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624378\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Election Poll: Eisenkot&#8217;s Bloc Beats Netanyahu as Likud Gains Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Gadi Eisenkot&#8217;s Yashar party remains the largest in the Knesset, winning 23 seats if elections were held today, a Channel 12 News poll showed Tuesday evening. Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s Likud takes 20 seats, while Naftali Bennett&#8217;s Beyahad receives 13.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Overall, Eisenkot&#8217;s bloc gains 54 seats compared to 50 for the current coalition. As in all recent surveys, the non-Arab opposition parties cannot form a coalition <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" target=\"_router\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/editorial\/2026-09-22\/ty-article-opinion\/israels-opposition-leaders-must-stop-the-infighting-and-come-to-their-senses\/000001a0-c583-df75-a7a7-ffc3bbd70000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">without the Arab parties,<\/a> which win 12 seats. The Reservists Party, led by Yoez Hendel and unaligned with either bloc, clears the electoral threshold with four seats.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Yisrael Beiteinu picks up a seat to reach nine, while the Democrats drop a seat to stand at nine as well. United Torah Judaism takes eight seats, unchanged from the channel&#8217;s previous survey. Shas holds steady at seven seats, matching the Joint List, which slipped by a seat since the last poll.<\/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\/09\/1790121494_332_1200x400.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz xt7dq6l x193iq5w xh8yej3\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>Related Articles<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\"><a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" target=\"_router\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/2026-09-22\/ty-article-opinion\/.premium\/netanyahu-is-losing-rightists-because-hes-just-not-extreme-enough-for-them\/000001a0-c551-d2fa-abb0-ff552da00000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Otzma Yehudit <\/a>remains at six seats, Religious Zionism holds at five, and Ra&#8217;am gains a seat to reach five. Ofer Winter&#8217;s Amcha Yisrael party and Yoez Hendel and Yaron Zelekha&#8217;s Reservists Party win four seats each. As in the previous survey, Benny Gantz&#8217;s Kahol Lavan fails to cross the electoral threshold, taking 0.7 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The poll was conducted by Mano Geva&#8217;s Midgam Institute in cooperation with iPanel among 501 respondents out of 2,498 sampled by phone and online. The margin of error is 4.4 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gadi Eisenkot&#8217;s Yashar party remains the largest in the Knesset, winning 23 seats if elections were held today,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,13135,955,42,2649,24954,21141,43,62534,40,38,41,39,68793,221587,251108],"class_list":["post-624378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-democrats","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-headlines","tag-israeli-elections","tag-joint-list","tag-likud","tag-news","tag-shas","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-torah-judaism","tag-yashar","tag-yisrael-beiteinu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624378","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=624378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}