Latest mandate poll: Will Feiglin and Smotrich be the surprise of the elections?
Gadi Eisenkot maintains the lead, Benjamin Netanyahu maintains stability, and the union between Bezalel Smotrich and Moshe Feiglin garners 5 mandates. Will this trend hold until the party lists are finalized?
Next week, the party lists for the 26th Knesset elections will be closed. Until then, a final mandate poll predicts the election results before the expected unions between political blocs.
Gadi Eisenkot drops to 23 mandates but manages to keep the 'Yashar!' party as the largest party in the next Knesset according to the polls. The Likud, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, maintains stability with 20 mandates, as does the 'BEYAHAD' party, led by Naftali Bennett in partnership with Yair Lapid.
The Democrats of Yair Golan receive 10 mandates, Avigdor Lieberman with Yisrael Beiteinu garners 9 mandates, and Itamar Ben Gvir's Otzma Yehudit receives 8 mandates—all maintaining stability from the previous 'Maariv' poll. The ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, receive an identical figure of 7 mandates each.
The union of Hadash, Ta'al, and Balad manages to garner 7 mandates, while Ra'am together with Yoav Segalovitz receives 5 mandates. The union between Bezalel Smotrich and Moshe Feiglin has immediate success and passes the electoral threshold with 5 mandates. Ofer Winter, who declared that he would exclusively support Benjamin Netanyahu for Prime Minister, garners 4 mandates.
Meanwhile, the anti-Netanyahu bloc receives 57 mandates, while the Netanyahu coalition receives 51 mandates. The Arab parties hold 12 mandates.
