{"id":244629,"date":"2026-08-11T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/244629\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:26:12","slug":"israel-2026-election-poll-eisenkot-led-opposition-bloc-just-one-seat-short-of-winning-majority-without-arab-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/244629\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel 2026 Election | Poll: Eisenkot-led Opposition Bloc Just One Seat Short of Winning Majority Without Arab Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">A new Channel 12 poll published Monday projects Israel&#8217;s opposition parties will win a combined 60 seats in the next Knesset, one seat short of a majority, as former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot&#8217;s Yashar party holds 24 seats and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s Likud goes down to 22 seats.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The anti-Netanyahu bloc is now one seat short of a majority without including Arab parties, according to the poll. The bloc led by Netanyahu remains at 50, according to the poll \u2013 10 less than the opposition. <\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The poll also projects that the Together party, the Democrats and Yisrael Beiteinu each gain seats, holding 15, 11 and 10 seats respectively.<\/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.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786443972_821_1200x400.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz xt7dq6l x193iq5w xh8yej3\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>Channel 12 poll August 11, 2026Yashar LikudTogether The DemocratsYisrael BeiteinuUnited Torah JudaismOtzma YehuditShasHadash-Ta&#8217;alUALReligious Zionism<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Otzma Yehudit is strengthening in terms of projected seats and received 8 seats, while United Torah Judaism maintains 8 seats. As predicted in the previous poll, Shas would win seven seats and Religious Zionism would win five. <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\/2026-08-09\/ty-article\/.premium\/taal-rejects-joint-arab-list-proposed-slate-as-parties-seek-election-alliance\/0000019f-e755-da6c-a9df-efd71eeb0000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hadash-Ta&#8217;al<\/a> and the <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/elections\/2026-08-03\/ty-article\/.premium\/game-changer-what-if-this-jewish-lawmaker-joins-an-israeli-arab-party\/0000019f-c52f-d3b5-a99f-edefdd2d0000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Arab List<\/a> are left with five seats each.<\/p>\n<p>Related Articles<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The poll shows that the centrist party of former ministers Yoaz Hendel and Chili Tropper, Zionist Home, no longer meets the electoral threshold (2.7 percent), alongside Balad (1.6 percent), Gilad Erdan and Yuli Edelstein&#8217;s still-unnamed party (1.3 percent), and Blue and White (0.8 percent).<\/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 Midgam Institute, headed by Mano Geva, among 503 respondents through telephone and online surveys. The margin of error was 4.4 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Channel 12 poll published Monday projects Israel&#8217;s opposition parties will win a combined 60 seats in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[37,30318,2742,16705,15347,53441,37131],"class_list":["post-244629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-israel","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-israeli-politics","tag-likud","tag-shas","tag-together","tag-yashar"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117076399925102919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244629","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=244629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}