59% of Israelis support joining US-led attack on Iran, TV poll finds

By Charlie Summers

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19 February 2026, 10:26 pm

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This handout image from the US Navy shows an EA-18G Growler launching from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Indian Ocean on January 23, 2026. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman/US Navy via AP)

A majority of Israelis support joining in a strike on Iran if the United States were to attack the country, according to a Channel 12 poll.

In the survey released tonight, as Washington ramps up its military presence in the region, 59 percent of respondents say they believe Israel should join in a US-led attack on the Islamic Republic.

Meanwhile, 29% are against the notion of joining in an attack, and the remainder of respondents (12%) are uncertain.

Respondents were also polled on which party they would vote for if elections were held today, with the survey finding that neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition nor the opposition bloc would win a majority in the 120-seat Knesset.

The result echoes the bulk of recent polling on the matter, as elections are slated to be held by the end of October this year, given the Knesset does not disperse before then.

The opposition bloc maintains its edge over the coalition in the survey, with the former winning 58 seats and the latter winning just 52.

Israel’s four main Arab-majority parties — which are currently in talks to reestablish the Joint List — would win 10 seats if running separately, with five going to Ra’am, led by Mansour Abbas, and the other five going to Hadash-Ta’al.

If the Joint List were revived and Arab parties were to run as a united bloc, it would win 12 seats, chipping off two seats from the opposition, the poll finds.

When broken down by party, Netanyahu’s Likud party still polls as the largest with 27 seats. A party led by former prime minister Naftali Bennett would win 21, while the left-wing Democrats, led by Yair Golan, would take 11.

Former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot’s “Yashar” party would win 10 seats. The Sephardic ultra-Orthodox Shas party, led by Aryeh Deri, would win nine seats, as would Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu and the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, led by Itamar Ben Gvir.

Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid would take seven seats, while United Torah Judaism would take five. As mentioned, both Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am would take another five seats.