According to survey data conducted by the polling company Direct Polls, headed by Zuriel Sharon, and published this evening (Thursday) on the i24 channel, Gadi Eisenkot is gaining strength at the expense of Naftali Bennett and receiving 17 seats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, the combination of Benny Gantz, Dedi Simchi, and Yoaz Hendel changes the picture of the situation in the blocs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The poll shows that Likud is leading with 30 seats, Eisenkot's Yeshar party is gaining one seat, and is in second place with 17 seats. In third place is Bennett and Lapid's Be'yat party, with only 12 seats - a decrease of two seats compared to last week's i24 poll. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Democratic Party increases by one seat and receives 11 seats. Shas remains stable with 9 seats. Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit strengthens from 8 to 9 seats, United Torah Judaism remains stable with 8 seats, Yisrael Beiteinu loses one seat and drops to 8 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A joint run by Hadash-Ta'al-Balad brings the joint list to 7 seats, compared to 5 received in the previous poll by the Hadash-Ta'al list, and Balad, which did not pass the threshold. Ra'am receives 5. The list is closed by Smotrich's Religious Zionism, which drops from 5 seats to four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reservists, the economic party, and Blue and White do not pass the threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Divided into blocs: the coalition bloc and the opposition bloc - with 60 seats for each bloc, without a tiebreaker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And if Gantz, Simchi and Handel run?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The survey also examined: If Benny Gantz, Dedi Simchi, and Yoaz Hendel run on a joint list in the next elections, and the rest of the parties remain unchanged, who would you vote for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The results are significant, and show a change in the picture of the blocs. Likud continues to lead even in such a situation with 28 seats. Yashar! drops by one seat to 16 seats, Bennett's coalition also drops by one seat and receives 11 seats. The Democrats remain stable with 11 seats. Shas also remains with 9 seats, as does Otzma Yehudit with 9 and United Torah Judaism with 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yisrael Beiteinu loses one seat, dropping to 7. The Joint List remains with 7 seats, as does Ra'am, which maintains 5 seats. A united party of Benny Gantz, Yoaz Hendel, and Dedi Simchi brings in five seats and bites the other parties. Here too, religious Zionism closes the list with 4 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The picture of the blocs is changing, and stands at 58 seats for the coalition, 57 seats for the opposition, and five seats for Gantz, Handel, and Simchi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Economic Party does not pass the threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n The survey titles:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Interpretation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Zuriel Sharon, CEO of Direct Falls, published his interpretation of the results on the institute's X account:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Politics is a game of rhythm, but above all, it is a game of identifying deep-seated trends. While the commentators in the studios analyze "what happened," the political map in the center-left bloc is undergoing reorganization, and anyone who doesn't understand this is missing the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The most dramatic headline of the current poll is the number 12. This is the number of seats to which the Bennett-Lapid list is collapsing, compared to Gadi Eisenkot's currently stable 17 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is nothing less than a shake-up in the change bloc. The union of former Prime Minister Bennett, along with the opposition leader and the largest opposition party, Yesh Atid, was a major blow that posed a challenge to the other partners in the bloc and threatened all partners in the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Until a few weeks ago, this union was worth 24 seats, but the trend reversed at breakneck speed, and within a few weeks, 'Together' lost most of its strength, and it continues to plummet downward at high speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We already identified this trend a few weeks ago. Shortly after the unification, Bennett-Lapid's decline began, with Gadi Eisenkot's momentum increasing on the other hand, resulting in him overtaking Bennett in popularity and mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the event is not over yet. The in-depth data we have indicates that Bennett-Lapid's downward trend is still in full swing. 'Together' is in real danger of falling to single digits, head to head with Itamar Ben-Gvir, for example, who is steadily strengthening and has already risen to 9 seats in the current poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second, and no less interesting, statistic in the survey examines a scenario of a proposed run by Benny Gantz together with Brigadier General (res.) Dedi Simchi and Yoaz Hendel. Our survey brings such a list to 5 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This statistic contains two pieces of news for Benjamin Netanyahu. One is bad in the short term, and one is good in the long term:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bad news for Netanyahu is that such a list would take two direct seats away from the Likud, reducing the current coalition bloc to 58 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The good news is that members of this list have already declared that they are not ruling out Netanyahu, and their addition to the bloc increases Netanyahu's supporters to 63 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bottom line is that while the classic opposition is experiencing severe internal cannibalization, with Eisenkot drinking Bennett-Lapid, it is precisely the new connections in the center of the map that may create the bloc that will decide the next elections, and they may also be the first swallow for the composition of the next coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sample was collected and compiled by Direct Polls Ltd., headed by Tzuriel Sharon, for the i24NEWS channel, on June 11, 2026, using a digital system combined with a panel, among 554 adult respondents (18+) who constitute a representative sample of the general population in Israel. 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