Poll: Most Israelis concerned by calls to defy High Court rulings, as Gantz passes electoral threshold

By Tal Schneider

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15 January 2026, 6:39 pm

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Tal Schneider is a Political Correspondent at The Times of Israel

Most Israelis are concerned by growing calls by senior coalition officials to defy High Court of Justice rulings, according to a new survey conducted this week for Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew-language sister site.

The survey shows that 47% of the public are “very concerned” and 6% are “a little concerned,” while 42% said they aren’t concerned.

Meanwhile, as artificial intelligence is increasingly used for election campaigns, 37% says this use of AI should be banned, and 39% believe AI content must be labeled as such, with only 9% saying they have no problem with it.

And in the weekly Knesset election survey, the deadlock between the pro- and anti-Netanyahu blocs persists, but the main change is that after recently polling consistently below the 3.25% electoral threshold, Benny Gantz’s embattled Blue and White party passes it and gets four seats after saying he’s not beholden to any bloc and ruling out a coalition with Arab parties.

The full results give 27 seats to Likud, 19 to Bennett 2026, 10 each to Yisrael Beytenu and Shas, 9 to Yesh Atid, 8 each to the Democrats and United Torah Judaism, 7 each to Otzma Yehudit and Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar, 6 to Ra’am, 5 to Hadash-Ta’al, and 4 to Blue and White. Balad, Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism and Yoaz Hendel’s Hamiluimnikim fail to pass the electoral threshold.

The pro-Netanyahu bloc gets 52 seats, the anti-Netanyahu bloc gets 53 seats, while the Arab parties get 11, and the non-aligned Blue and White stands at 4.

The survey was conducted on January 14-15, by Tatika Research and Media in collaboration with the Adgenda panel, and included 500 Jewish and Arab respondents. The margin of error is 4.4%.