Poll Puts Opposition Bloc at 52 Seats, Coalition at 51

An election poll published Wednesday projected 52 Knesset seats for opposition parties and 51 for the governing coalition, leaving neither bloc with a majority. It put Arab parties at 13 seats and an unaligned list led by Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelekha at four. In the same survey, Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar received 22 seats and Likud 18, while B'Yachad and the Democrats each received 11. The survey questioned 1,503 respondents and reported a sampling error of 2.5 percentage points; its figures are poll estimates, not election results.