First post-merger poll: 'Beyachad' wins 27 seats but underperforms separate runs

A Lazar Research poll for Walla after the Bennett-Lapid merger projected Beyachad at 27 seats, four fewer than Bennett's party and Yesh Atid had been polling separately. Likud climbed to 28 seats, and the opposition bloc fell to 59, short of the 61 needed for a majority without Arab-party support. The result undercut early hopes that the merger by itself would deliver an anti-Netanyahu governing majority.