Israeli Election Poll Shows Netanyahu Bloc Gaining Ground Over Eisenkot

A Kan poll published Sunday shows Netanyahu's governing coalition rising to 53 Knesset seats while Eisenkot's opposition bloc fell to 50, with neither side reaching the 61-seat majority required. Ofer Winter's Amcha Yisrael crossed the electoral threshold for the first time in recent polling. Eisenkot leads Netanyahu 43% to 38% on prime ministerial suitability, and 30% of voters remain undecided. The poll was conducted by Kantar among 552 respondents with a margin of error of 4.2 percentage points.

According to a poll released Sunday by the public broadcaster Kan, the electoral bloc associated with former military chief Gadi Eisenkot lost two seats in projected standings, while the bloc behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gained two seats, a shift aided by Ofer Winter's Amcha Yisrael party clearing the parliamentary entry threshold. The Eisenkot-led bloc held 50 Knesset seats at the latest count, two fewer than the 52 it carried the previous week, while the governing coalition added two seats of its own to reach 53, up from 51 — leaving both sides short of the 61-seat threshold that confers a parliamentary majority. Thirteen seats remained under the Arab parties' control, with their parliamentary position unchanged. With 22 seats, the Yashar party led by Eisenkot holds its position as the largest grouping in the count, though it shed one seat from the previous week's tally. Likud's seat count dropped by one, leaving the party with 20. The Together party, led by Bennett, retained its 12-seat position without change. Otzma Yehudit added a seat to finish on nine, while Yisrael Beiteinu shed one to land on eight. All three parties — the Democrats, the Joint List, and United Torah Judaism — held their position at eight seats apiece. Shas shed one of its seats, trimming its tally to seven, while Mansour Abbas' United Arab List kept all five of its own. That party's seat count has settled at five, trimming one place from where it stood the previous week. Four parliamentary seats are currently held by the Reservists, the party whose leadership is shared between Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelekha. Amcha Yisrael, the party led by Winter, cleared the electoral threshold in the latest Kan poll after falling short in the broadcaster's previous survey, with the party projected at four seats. Both Blue and White and the Haredi Public party are sitting at 0.9 percent of the vote apiece, leaving each of them short of the threshold needed to enter the legislature. On the question of who should serve as prime minister, polling placed Eisenkot ahead of Netanyahu, with 43 percent of respondents favouring Eisenkot against 38 percent for Netanyahu. Among those surveyed, three in ten had not yet settled on a candidate when asked about their voting intentions. Fielded among 552 respondents, the survey was carried out by Kantar under the direction of Dudu Hasid. That figure carries a sampling tolerance of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.

Israeli Election Poll Shows Netanyahu Bloc Gaining Ground Over Eisenkot

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