New election poll shows Gantz soaring while Netanyahu, Lapid sink

A poll published tonight by the Kan public broadcaster shows Benny Gantz’s National Unity party with a significantly stronger showing than Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.

According to the poll, if elections were to be held today, National Unity would receive 33 seats (almost tripling its current 12), while Likud would get just 20 (compared to its current 32).

The centrist Yesh Atid led by Yair Lapid would receive 14 seats (dropping from 24), while the combined Religious Zionism-Otzma Yehudit slate would get 12 (a slight drop from its current 14).

Shas and Yisrael Beytenu would get 10 each, UTJ would get seven, Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am would get five each, while Meretz — which did not cross the electoral threshold in the last election — would get four, and the Labor party would get zero.

Kan says it polled 600 respondents with a margin of error of 4%.