Eisenkot's Yashar Leads Likud 23-22 in New Election Poll

An election poll published Monday night put Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar first with 23 Knesset seats, one ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud on 22. The Bennett-Lapid Yachad list was projected at 16 and the Democrats at 10, while the Zionist opposition bloc reached 59 seats against 51 for the current coalition. Eisenkot also led Netanyahu 43%-34% on suitability for prime minister. Midgam surveyed 509 Israeli adults on July 13 by internet and telephone, with a maximum sampling error of 4.4 percentage points; neither bloc could form a government alone.