Poll: Gadi Eisenkot overtakes Likud, Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc without a majority

The Yashar! party of former Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot would come out on top in the legislative elections with 24 seats, narrowly ahead of Likud, which is credited with 23 mandates, according to a poll conducted by Kantar Israel for Kan Reshet Bet.

The Together party, led by former Prime Ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, would come in third place with 14 seats. The Democrats would win 10.

Otzma Yehudit of Itamar Ben-Gvir and Israel Beiteinu of Avigdor Liberman would each win nine seats. The Ashkenazi Orthodox party United Torah Judaism would collect eight, compared to seven for the Sephardic Orthodox Shas.

Hadash-Ta’al would win six seats, while Ra’am and Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist Party would barely pass the electoral threshold with five mandates each.

The parties making up Benjamin Netanyahu’s current coalition would win a total of 52 seats, far from the 61 needed to form a majority in the Knesset.

The center-left bloc would reach 57 seats, while the Arab parties would hold the remaining 11 seats.

These parties traditionally do not join government coalitions, however, the leader of Ra’am, Mansour Abbas, has expressed his support for participating in a center-left government in order to replace the current right-wing coalition.