Share 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 formatSubscribeGadi Eisenkot, last month. Credit: Ilan AssayagGadi Eisenkot, last month. Credit: Ilan Assayag02:45 AM • July 21 2026 IDTA Channel 12 News poll released Monday evening shows Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party gaining one seat since the network's previous poll, putting it in first place with 24 seats. Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud also picked up a seat, rising to 23.The overall balance of power remains unchanged, with the opposition bloc holding 69 seats compared with 51 for the coalition. However, the Jewish opposition parties still cannot form a majority without support from the Arab parties.Naftali Bennett's Beyahad party lost one seat, dropping to 15, while the Democrats gained a seat to reach 11. Yisrael Beiteinu lost two seats, falling to nine.Haaretz Elections Podcast‘What if there aren't free and fair elections in Israel in October? What are we going to do?’Haaretz Elections Podcast‘What if there aren't free and fair elections in Israel in October? What are we going to do?’total-- : --time0:00Otzma Yehudit remained unchanged at eight seats, the same number held by Shas and United Torah Judaism. Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionism slipped by one seat and now sits at four, just above the electoral threshold. Among the Arab parties, Hadash-Ta'al and the United Arab List each won five seats.Several parties failed to clear the electoral threshold, including the joint list headed by Yoaz Hendel and Chili Tropper (2.7 percent), Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan (2.6 percent), and Balad (1.7 percent). All three also failed to pass the threshold in the network's previous poll.The poll was conducted by Mano Geva's Midgam Institute through telephone and online surveys of 507 respondents. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.In the NewsBar Entry to Those Calling Israel an Apartheid State, High Court Justice SaysDrafting ultra-Orthodox Jews Is Not the Solution to Israel's ProblemsTop Court Must Block Netanyahu's Move to Politicize Police InvestigationsThe Architecture of Moral Amnesia: Israelis Can't Forget What They Never KnewHaaretz CartoonRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIThe Most Optimistic Israeli in Jerusalem Is Leaving the CountryAs Ground Invasion Looms, U.S. and Iran Want Wild-card Israel Out of the FightNetanyahu's Biggest Challenger: Who Is Gadi Eisenkot and What Does He Stand For?Democrats Rejected U.S. Aid to Israel, and AIPAC Couldn't Stop ThemBetween Messi and Milei: How Argentina Became Israel's Team at the World Cup103 House Democrats Vote to Cut U.S. Aid to Israel in Landmark Symbolic Vote