New Poll Shows Eisenkot's Party Second, Opposition Short of Knesset Majority
Translated & summarized from Kipa by baba
A new poll by Channel 14 shows the Likud party leading with 29 seats and Gadi Eisenkot's Yesh Atid party in second place with 22 seats. The opposition bloc has 59 seats, insufficient for a Knesset majority. Several smaller parties saw shifts in their seat projections, with some losing seats and others gaining. Parties like Blue and White failed to pass the electoral threshold.
The story in 6 lines · by baba
- Gadi Eisenkot's Yesh Atid party is projected to receive 22 seats in a new Channel 14 poll.
- The Likud party leads the poll with 29 seats, while the opposition bloc has 59 seats.
- The opposition bloc is short of the 61 seats needed for a majority in the Knesset.
- United Torah Judaism and Shas are projected to win 10 seats each.
- Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party lost one seat, now projected at 7.
- Several parties, including Blue and White, failed to pass the electoral threshold.
A new poll released Sunday by Channel 14 indicates that if elections were held today, the Yesh Atid party, led by former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, would secure 22 seats, placing it second. The Likud party leads with 29 seats. The opposition bloc as a whole garnered 59 seats, falling short of the 61 needed for a Knesset majority. The poll also showed that the United Torah Judaism and Shas parties would each receive 10 seats, with Bennett's party gaining one less seat than previously. The Democratic Party and Yahadut HaTorah each received 8 seats. The Religious Zionism-Identity, Otzma Yehudit, and the Joint List parties would each get 7 seats. Otzma Yehudit, led by Itamar Ben-Gvir, lost one seat compared to the previous poll, while the Joint List, led by Yosef Jabareen, lost two seats. Israel Beiteinu and Ra'am would each receive 6 seats, an increase of one seat for both. Several parties, including HaMiluimnikim-HaKalkalit, Am Israel, Blue and White, Noam LeIsrael, HaTzibur HaHaredi, and Ahi, did not pass the electoral threshold.
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