New Poll Puts Yashar at 23 Seats and Likud at 20

An October 12 election poll gave Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar 23 Knesset seats, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud 20 and Naftali Bennett’s Together 13. The Democrats and Yisrael Beytenu received 9 seats each. The governing coalition’s parties totaled 49 seats, compared with 54 for Zionist opposition parties, 13 for Arab parties and 4 for the Hendel–Zelekha Reservists–Economic list. In prime-minister suitability questions, Eisenkot led Netanyahu 45% to 35%, while Bennett led Netanyahu 37% to 36%. Midgam’s telephone and internet survey included 509 Israeli adults on October 12, with a maximum sampling error of ±4.4 percentage points.