New Poll Shows Gush Eisenkot Leading Netanyahu Bloc, Winter and Handel Cross Threshold

A new poll conducted by Channel 12 News indicates a slight advantage for the Gush Eisenkot bloc over the Gush Netanyahu bloc, with several additional parties surpassing the electoral threshold. According to the survey's findings, Gadi Eisenkot's "Yashar!" party leads the political map with 23 mandates, followed by Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party with 20 mandates. The bloc breakdown shows Gush Eisenkot with 54 mandates compared to Gush Netanyahu's 50 mandates. Arab parties collectively hold 12 mandates. Yoaz Handel's "Reservists Union" and Yaron Zelekha's "Economic Party" each garnered 4 mandates.

The full mandate distribution presented in the poll is as follows: Yashar! 23, Likud 20, "Beiteinu" 13, Democrats 10, Joint List 8, United Torah Judaism 8, Yisrael Beiteinu 8, Shas 7, Otzma Yehudit 6, Religious Zionism with Identity 5, Ra'am 4, Ofer Winter's "Am Israel" 4, and the Reservists Union and Economic Party 4. Parties that did not pass the electoral threshold in this survey include Blue and White, "Hachareidi Hatziburi," "Yisrael Hachila," and Noam L'Yisrael.