Poll: In Election-Season First, Ex-IDF Chief Eisenkot Overtakes Netanyahu's Likud

Yoaz Hendel: I will not hand Netanyahu a 61-seat majority

In an interview following his political merger with Chili Tropper, the former minister lays out his conditions for joining a coalition and launches a sharp critique of the current government.

Poll: In Election-season First, Ex-IDF Chief Eisenkot Overtakes Netanyahu's Likud

A Channel 13 poll published Wednesday evening projects that Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party is set to be the largest party in the next Knesset, if a general election were held today. While this is the first time that the former IDF Chief of Staff overtakes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud in the polls, the Jewish opposition parties still find themselves three seats short of the 61 needed to form a government. To form a governing coalition,…

Yashar overtakes Likud, Netanyahu as Zionist opposition bloc nears 61-seat majority

Additionally, the new party led by Chili Tropper and Yoaz Hendel failed to cross the electoral threshold, but pulled voters from Religious Zionist Party, knocking them from five seats to four.