Polls Put Yashar Ahead of Likud as Campaign Map Shifts

A Friday Lazar Research and Panel4All poll put Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar first with 22 seats, ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud at 21, while Bennett and Lapid's Together list slipped to 18. It gave the Netanyahu bloc 49 seats and the Arab parties 11, and said a Bennett-led Yashar-Together merger plus a Tropper-Hendel party could give the Zionist opposition a 61-seat path. If Eisenkot headed that merged list, the same partner could lift it to 63. Separate midweek polling put Yashar ahead 23-22, so two recent surveys now show the former IDF chief's party leading Likud as parties map routes to a Knesset majority.