Poll Gives Eisenkot-Led Opposition Path to 61 Seats Without Arab Parties

A Lazar Research poll gives the Zionist opposition 57 seats and the Hendel-Zelekha alliance four, creating a 61-seat path without Arab parties. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition falls to 47 seats, with Likud on 20, while Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar leads on 25. The survey puts B’Yachad at 13, the Democrats at 10 and Yisrael Beytenu at nine; Ofer Winter’s Amcha Yisrael misses the threshold at 2.8%. Lazar Research polled 600 respondents on September 7–8 from 4,052 invitations, reporting a four-percentage-point maximum sampling error and cautioning that candidate lists were not complete during fieldwork.