The last polls published on the Friday before the parliamentary elections in Israel also indicated a continued stalemate: neither the current coalition nor the so-called “changing bloc” are likely to be able to form a government after the election.
One Opinion poll Channel 13 predicted that the “change alliance” of parties opposing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would win 54 seats, while parties loyal to the prime minister would get 50 seats. According to the most recent election polls, the number of blocs is below the 61 seats required for a majority in the Knesset. According to the last survey, the predominantly Arab parties would receive 16 seats before Israel’s 2026 election.
The latest polls before the Israel election indicate a close race
The last election polls from Channel 11, Channel 12 and Channel 13 before the Knesset election paint a very similar picture in their average, summarized values. Here, with 54 to 50 seats, a similar picture emerges before the election in Israel when it comes to the distance between the two blocs.
The Eisenkot camp received 54 seats in the current poll, while Netanyahu’s alliance got 50 seats. At the same time, it is assumed that there will be 16 seats in the Knesset election that have not yet been assigned to any camp.
Election polls unclear: Will Netanyahu or Eisenkot win the Israel election?
According to the portal “israel.com”, which summarizes the eight most important election polls from the past 14 days, Eisenkot’s Jashar party is ahead in all polls and has an average of 22.1 seats.
However, there is bad news for Netanyahu’s Likud party shortly before the 2026 Knesset election. It does not do better than Jashar in any survey and receives an average of 20.6 seats.
Other parties are facing the Israel election in the polls
The Bejahad-Party with the former head of government Naftali Bennett and the opposition politician Jair Lapidwhich is attributed to the Eisenkot camp, has an average of 13.6 seats according to the election polls, Ha-Democratim from party leader Jair Golan to an average of 9.1 seats. The United List or Chadash Ta’al is composed of the Arab-Jewish communist party Chadash and the Arab nationalist party Ta’al. The alliance with list leader Yousef Jabareen is currently at 8.7 seats in the polls ahead of the Israeli parliamentary election.
The party Yisrael Beiteinu the former defense minister Avigdor Lieberman According to the polls, it has 7.8 seats, while the Otzma Jehudit from party leader Itamar Ben Gvir has an average of 8.1 seats. United Torah Judaism stands at 7.3 seats, while Shas to 7.7 seats and Religious Zionism from Bezalel Smotrich 6.6 seats on average in the current election polls before the Israel election. With Raam, the former Islamist party of Mansur Abbasthe surveys only give one other party with 5.4 seats a realistic chance of getting a significant number of seats in the Knesset.
