The bloc of Jewish parties opposing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be two seats short of forming a majority government if elections were held today, according to a poll by Channel 12 News published on Thursday, which reflects recent surveys that parties opposing Netanyahu are unlikely to secure a Knesset majority if they continue to boycott Arab parties.<\/p>\n
The survey indicates that the opposition bloc lost one seat since the previous poll, sitting at 59 votes. To form a governing coalition, a bloc has to comprise a majority of at least 61 of the Knesset’s 120 total seats. A party needs to receive at least 3.25 percent of the vote for a seat in the Knesset.<\/p>\n
The “Beyahad” merger party<\/a> led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid lost one seat but remains the largest party in the opposition, with 25 seats, while Netanyahu’s Likud<\/a> party would equally win 25 seats, unchanged from a Channel 12 poll published last week.<\/p>\n Bennett said in April that the Beyahad would rely only on Zionist parties to form a government. “The Arab parties are not Zionist, and therefore we will not rely on them,” he said.<\/p>\n Related Articles<\/p>\n Coalition parties would secure 51 seats, winning one more than in the previous survey. The current governing coalition is comprised of Likud, Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit, Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism, and two ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism.<\/p>\n Otzma Yehudit, led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and Shas, led by MK Aryeh Deri, each received nine seats. United Torah Judaism, led by Yitzhak Goldknopf, receives eight seats \u2013 one more than in the previous poll.<\/p>\n Channel 12 News pollBeyahadLikudYashar DemocratsShasYisrael BeiteinuOtzma YehuditUnited Torah JudaismHadash-Ta’alUnited Arab ListReligious Zionism Kahol LavanBaladThe Reservists<\/p>\n The Yashar party of former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot also lost one vote and would receive 14 seats, and the Democrats led by former Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan would win 11.<\/p>\n Haaretz PodcastJewish life in polite Canada has become ‘a horror show of hatred’<\/p>\n play<\/p>\n Haaretz Podcast<\/p>\n Jewish life in polite Canada has become ‘a horror show of hatred’<\/p>\n Volume: 0.5<\/p>\n X1<\/p>\n total– : –time0:00<\/p>\n fast forward15<\/p>\n play<\/p>\n rewind15<\/p>\n Yisrael Beiteinu, led by former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, would win nine seats; the Arab United Arab List and Hadash-Ta’al parties would each secure five seats \u2013 unchanged from the previous poll.<\/p>\n The poll was conducted by the Midgam Institute, headed by Mano Geva, in cooperation with iPanel, among 501 respondents aged 18 and over, with a margin of error of 4.4 percent.<\/p>\n The poll found that the following parties would not pass the electoral threshold: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party, the Reservists party, Kahol Lavan and Balad. All four parties also failed to pass the electoral threshold<\/a> in a poll conducted the previous week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bloc of Jewish parties opposing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be two seats short of forming a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[37,30318,2742,16705,4029,6489,36586],"class_list":{"0":"post-105750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-israel-elections-2026","10":"tag-israeli-politics","11":"tag-likud","12":"tag-naftali-bennett","13":"tag-yair-lapid","14":"tag-yair-netanyahu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116546584140533702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}