{"id":537704,"date":"2026-01-23T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/537704\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:24:11","slug":"poll-netanyahus-likud-drops-a-seat-opposition-short-of-majority-without-arab-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/537704\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Netanyahu’s Likud Drops a Seat, Opposition Short of Majority Without Arab Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public support for the parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition remains insufficient for him to form a new government, while the opposition can’t reach a majority without the Arab parties, a new poll shows.<\/p>\n

According to a Channel 12 poll published Thursday, Netanyahu’s Likud party would get 25 seats, one less than last week’s<\/a> poll. Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s party is second with 22 seats, while the Democrats, led by Yair Golan, also lost a seat compared to the previous poll, remaining third with 11 seats.<\/p>\n

Both the coalition bloc and opposition bloc remain stable, with the parties in Netanyahu’s government receiving 51 seats in this week’s poll as well.<\/p>\n

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The opposition bloc would win 69 seats, according to the latest poll, but would remain at 59 without the Arab parties’ support, falling short of the required 61-seat majority.<\/p>\n

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Former Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party lost one seat in the Thursday poll compared to last week, receiving eight seats. Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s party remains stable at nine seats.<\/p>\n

Ultra-Orthodox parties United Torah Judaism and Shas received eight and nine seats, respectively, a slight change from Shas’ eight-seat result in last week’s poll.<\/p>\n

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MK Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu and former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar both rise to nine seats, compared to last week’s eight. MK Mansour Abbas’ United Arab List and MK Ayman Odeh’s Hadash-Ta’al each hold five seats.<\/p>\n

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism, MK Benny Gantz’s Kahol Lavan, Yoaz Hendel’s The Reservists and the secular Palestinian nationalist Balad party remain under the threshold for parliamentary participation.<\/p>\n

Also on Thursday, the leaders of the Arab parties announced<\/a> their intention to run in the upcoming Knesset elections on a joint list following a demonstration protesting crime and violence in the Arab community.<\/p>\n

The statement was signed by Abbas, Odeh, MK Ahmad Tibi of Ta’al and Balad leader Sami Abu Shahadeh.<\/p>\n

The survey was conducted by the Midgam institute headed by Mano Geva, in collaboration with ipanel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public support for the parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition remains insufficient for him to form a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":537705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26712,372,99,237638,26902,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-537704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arab-israelis","9":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israeli-elections","12":"tag-israeli-politics","13":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}