Kantar Poll Gives Likud a Boost, Eisenkot Widens Lead over Bennett

A Kan News poll released Wednesday evening shows Likud rising by one seat to 24, while Gadi Eisenkot’s Yesh! party climbs to 22 and Naftali Bennett’s Together drops to 16. The Democrats and Otzma Yehudit would each win 9 seats, Shas 8, United Torah Judaism 7, Hadash-Ta’al 6, Religious Zionism 5, and Ra’am 4. The Reservists, Blue and White, and Balad remain below the electoral threshold.

In a scenario where Bennett and Yair Lapid split, Bennett would get 14 seats and Lapid would fall to 4. If Benny Gantz were to unite with Yoaz Hendel and Dadi Shimi, the combined list would win 7 seats, but the poll says that still would not decide the balance between the blocs.

The coalition bloc stands at 53 seats, one more than last week. Compared with the previous poll on June 4, Likud and Yesh! each gained a seat, Together lost one, Shas lost one, Hadash-Ta’al lost one, while the other major parties stayed largely unchanged.

The survey also tested public opinion on a reported deal between Benjamin Netanyahu and the ultra-Orthodox parties, under which they would agree on an election date in exchange for laws benefiting those parties. Fifty-two percent opposed the deal, 23% supported it, and 25% said they did not know. Asked who should lead the opposition bloc in the next election, 40% chose Eisenkot, 16% Bennett, 27% said neither, and 17% did not know. The poll was conducted by Kantar on June 24, 2026, among 553 respondents out of 2,748 invited adults aged 18 and over, via an online sample that also included Arab respondents, with a margin of error of 4.2%.