Religious Zionism clears threshold in June polls, but blocs remain short

Television polls aired Wednesday gave Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionism five seats, above the 3.25% Knesset threshold, while Likud led with 23-24 seats and Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar polled at 20-22. The surveys still left both blocs short of a governing majority: parties backing the current coalition totaled 53 seats, the opposition 57, and Hadash-Ta'al plus Ra'am held the remaining 10.