Bennett and Lapid Hold Emergency Meeting After Poll Collapse

Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid held an emergency meeting on Thursday with all Knesset members from Yesh Atid and Bennett’s candidates at their joint campaign headquarters in Ra’anana. The goal was to steady the campaign after growing talk of internal tension and a possible split, and to present a united front.

According to a report by Shahar Glick on Kan News, the meeting outlined the main principles of the next stage of the campaign, the digital operation, and additional organizational issues. The leaders wanted the unified list to understand the strategy going forward and coordinate its public message.

The urgent gathering followed a sharp shift in a Kan News poll published on Tuesday. In that survey, the Bennett-Lapid alliance dropped from 23 seats to 17, a steep decline from the previous poll.

At the same time, Gadi Eisenkot’s party, Yashar!, gained four seats compared with the earlier poll and overtook Bennett and Lapid for the first time with 21 seats. That result increased internal pressure and helped prompt the emergency meeting.