Current sectionIsrael NewsIsrael Elections 2026According to Reshet 13 poll, the Jewish parties of the opposition bloc would win 54 seats if elections were held today. Bloc leader Beyachad, headed by former prime ministers Bennett and Lapid lost three seats compared to the channel's last pollShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, earlier this week. Credit: Itai RonPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, earlier this week. Credit: Itai Ron04:28 PM • May 26 2026 IDTSince the last poll conducted two weeks ago, the largest opposition party to the current government, led by former prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, has lost three seats, dropping to 23, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud maintained its 25 seats, according to a poll published Monday.According to the poll, Likud's 25 seats would make it the largest party in the Knesset if elections were held today, unchanged from Channel 13's previous poll earlier this month. However, Netanyahu's bloc would still fall five seats short of forming a coalition, holding only 56 seats.Among the opposition parties, alongside Bennett and Lapid's Beyachad (Together), Yashar, led by former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, would win 14 seats, making it the third-largest party in the Knesset. The Democrats – a merger of the Labor and Meretz parties – would win nine seats, while Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu would secure eight.In the coalition bloc, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit and ultra-Orthodox Shas are projected to win 10 seats each. United Torah Judaism would win seven seats, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionism would win just four seats. Channel 13 News pollLikud25Beyahad23Yashar14Otzma Yehudit10Shas10Democrats9Yisrael Beiteinu8United Torah Judaism7Hadash–Ta'al6United Arab List4Balad0Kahol Lavan0The Reservists0Arab party Hadash–Ta'al would win six seats and the United Arab List would win four. With the coalition bloc projected to win 56 seats and the Jewish opposition parties projected to win 54, neither side appears able to form a coalition without the support of at least one Arab party.Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan, the Palestinian nationalist Balad party and former Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel's party, The Reservists, aren't projected to pass the 3.25 percent electoral threshold and would therefore be left out of the next Knesset.On Sunday evening, Balad announced that it would run on a joint slate with Hadash and Ta'al, and all three parties called on the United Arab List to follow suit and join them. According to the poll, such a joint slate will become the third-largest party with 16 seats, dropping Likud to 23 seats and Beyahad to 21. Overall, the coalition bloc would drop to 53 seats and the Jewish opposition bloc would drop to 51 seats in such a scenario.The poll also sought to find the effect of a Beyachad-Yashar merger on voter sentiment. It found that such a merger would win 38 seats and drop the Likud to 24 seats. In such a scenario, the Jewish opposition bloc would win 56 seats and the coalition bloc 54 seats.The poll was conducted by "Maagar Mochot," managed by Prof. Yitzhak Katz, and "Stat-Net," headed by Yousef Makladeh. No sample size or margin of error was provided.In the NewsPoll: Bennett-Lapid Merger Party Loses Three Seats, Likud Remains Largest PartyHow AIPAC Made a Midterm Race the Most Expensive Primary in U.S. HistoryTzvika Mor, Father of ex-Gaza Hostage, Joins Smotrich's Religious Zionism PartyIsraeli Arabs Will Not Forgive Their Parties if Ego Battles Derail a Joint ListIsrael Police Chief Slams Shin Bet Head on Rise in Crime in Closed TalksRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIFreed Gaza Flotilla Activists Report Sexual Abuse, Rape in Israeli CustodyBen-Gvir Posts Video of Police Dragging Detained Gaza Flotilla ActivistsThe Most Consequential Republican Primary for Israel Is Happening in Kentucky'It Was Okay to Be Crazy': IDF Soldiers Discuss Moral Decay in LebanonWill Trump Forgive Netanyahu Over Iran? The Emerging Deal Suggests NotOn Israel, Gaza and Palestine, Bigmouth Tucker Carlson Spoke Nothing but Truth