Netanyahu’s bloc shows strength in one poll, while competing numbers expose fierce election uncertainty ahead”
A new Channel 14 seat-projection poll released Thursday evening shows Likud leading the next Knesset race with 33 seats, placing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party far ahead of its rivals.
According to the poll, the Together alliance led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid receives 15 seats, the same number projected for Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party.
Shas follows with 11 seats, while the Democrats party receives 9 seats. Yisrael Beytenu is projected to win 8 seats.
United Torah Judaism and Otzma Yehudit each receive 7 seats, while the Religious Zionist Party holds 5 seats. The Arab factions Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am also receive 5 seats each.
Balad fails to cross the electoral threshold with 2.1 percent, while Blue and White remains far below the benchmark with just 1.2 percent.
A competing Channel 12 poll presents a very different political picture. It places Likud at only 23 seats, just one seat ahead of the Bennett-Lapid slate. Eisenkot’s faction receives 17 seats, while Yair Golan’s Democrats receive 11.
In that poll, Yisrael Beytenu receives 9 seats, while Shas, United Torah Judaism and Otzma Yehudit each receive 8. Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am receive 5 seats each, and Religious Zionism stands at 4.
The sharp gap between the two polls highlights the uncertainty surrounding Israel’s election map, with Netanyahu still leading in one survey but facing a much tighter race in another.
