{"id":658997,"date":"2026-10-27T22:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658997\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T22:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:32:26","slug":"israeli-election-exit-polls-bennetts-byachad-projected-to-win-12-14-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658997\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli election exit polls: Bennett’s B’Yachad projected to win 12-14 seats"},"content":{"rendered":"

The B\u2019Yachad joint slate, comprising former prime minister Naftali Bennett<\/a>\u2019s 2026 party and Yair Lapid<\/a>\u2019s Yesh Atid, was projected to win between 12 and 14 seats in exit polls published by Channels 11, 12, and 13 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The projections would make B\u2019Yachad the second-largest slate in the opposition bloc, following Gadi Eisenkot\u2019s Yashar.<\/p>\n

The results put B\u2019Yachad broadly in line with pre-election expectations, although its projected support remained well below the 24 seats Yesh Atid won independently in the November 2022 election<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the final polls published before the election, KAN 11 and Channel 13 projected 14 seats for B\u2019Yachad, while Channel 12 gave it 15. The exit polls therefore point to a result broadly consistent with the final polling picture, rather than a major late surge.<\/p>\n

Former prime minister Yair Lapid said the Netanyahu<\/a> bloc had suffered a \u201ccrushing defeat\u201d following the publication of television exit polls at 10:12 p.m. on election night. \u201cThis is a total collapse and the public has told them to go home,\u201d Lapid added.<\/p>\n

The Jerusalem Post was present at the B’Yachad headquarters when the exit polls were revealed.<\/p>\n

The atmosphere was lackluster, with a relatively small turnout and low energy. There was no celebration following the revelation of 12-14 seats, and attendees seemed predominantly preoccupied with the high numbers of Arab seats and the predicted success of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu over Eisenkot in terms of seats.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The B\u2019Yachad joint slate, comprising former prime minister Naftali Bennett\u2019s 2026 party and Yair Lapid\u2019s Yesh Atid, was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[147752,273347,85,46,58195,14406,953,43,238,19344],"class_list":["post-658997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2026-israeli-elections","tag-byachad","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-knesset","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-yair-lapid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658997","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=658997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}