Netanyahu and Eizenkot Tie at 23 Seats Each in New Israeli Poll, Bennett Drops

A new poll by Kan News released on Sunday evening shows a tie between Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and Gadi Eizenkot's Yisrael party, each securing 23 seats in the Knesset. This marks a gain of one seat for Likud and two for Yisrael compared to last week's poll. Meanwhile, Naftali Bennett's Yachdav party falls by one seat to 13, and Yair Golan's HaDemokratim drops two seats to eight.

Other parties show stability or minor shifts: Hadash-Ta'al rises by one seat to six, Otzma Yehudit and Yisrael Beiteinu maintain nine seats each, and Shas and United Torah Judaism hold steady at eight seats apiece. Religious Zionism loses one seat, falling to four. The joint list of Yoaz Hendel and Hili Tropper crosses the electoral threshold with four seats.

Regarding bloc strength, Netanyahu's bloc holds 52 seats, Eizenkot's bloc leads with 57, and the Arab parties collectively have 11 seats. In hypothetical scenarios involving two new right-wing parties led by Gilad Erdan and Yuli Edelstein, and by Ofer Winter, neither passes the threshold, but HaDemokratim gains one seat at Otzma Yehudit's expense. If Yoav Segalovich joins Ra'am, the party remains at five seats with no change in bloc distribution.

In the prime minister preference poll, Netanyahu leads Bennett with 40% to 31%, and narrowly surpasses Eizenkot by four points (40% to 36%). Between Bennett and Eizenkot, the latter leads 37% to 15%. On the question of whether Israel should oppose a deal with Hamas in Gaza, 45% say Israel should oppose, 27% support it, and 27% are undecided.