Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party would be the largest opposition faction if new elections were held today, overtaking ex-premier Naftali Bennett’s Together, according to Channel 13 news.
A poll published by the network shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party as the largest with 22 seats, followed by Yashar with 20 and Together with 17.
The next largest parties were also opposition factions, The Democrats and Yisrael Beytenu, with 11 seats each, followed by the ultra-Orthodox Shas party with nine seats and eight apiece for ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit and Haredi United Torah Judaism.
The majority Arab Hadash-Ta’al alliance picked up six seats, while the Islamist Ra’am and far-right Religious Zionism closed out the poll with four seats a pop.
Combined, the survey gave opposition parties 59 seats, two short of a majority in the Knesset, while the Netanyahu-led bloc received 51 seats and Arab parties 10.
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