Survey data conducted by the Direct Polls Institute and published this evening (Thursday) on the i24 channel indicates that the attempt by Benny Gantz and Hili Trooper to run on separate lists is leading to the collapse of both parties below the threshold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those enjoying momentum are Gadi Eisenkot and the Yashar party, who are soaring to their highest figure in recent weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The survey data shows that the Likud party maintains its strength as the largest party in Israel, with a stable figure of 29 seats. Immediately following it, in second place, is the Yashar party with 21 seats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Democratic Party maintains its strength with 10 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three parties that receive 9 seats each: the Together party, which is suffering a decline following the splits, Shas, which maintains its strength, and the Yisrael Beiteinu party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following them on the list are Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit and the United Torah Judaism Party, both of which receive 8 seats in the current poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Joint List receives 7 seats, the Religious Zionist Party 5 seats, and Mansour Abbas's Ra'am movement closes the list with 5 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Zehut Party, the Economic Party, Blue and White led by Gantz and Simchi, and a party led by Tropper and Handel - do not pass the threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The split between the blocs remains particularly fragile: opposition supporters - including the Joint List and Ra'am - reach 61 seats, while the bloc supporting the current coalition receives 59 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And what happens if a new right-wing party is formed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The survey examined what would happen if a new right-wing party led by Yuli Edelstein, Gilad Erdan, and Ayelet Shaked ran in the elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The results are unequivocal, and the picture of the mandates remains the same, with the new party joining the ranks of parties that do not pass the threshold, alongside Gantz-Simchi, Tropper-Hendel, Zehut and the Economic Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bungee jumping without a rope attached \/\/ Interpretation by Tzuriel Sharon, CEO of Direct Falls<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n There's a rule in Israeli politics: When you try to wink at everyone, in the end no one is left to look back at you. Just ask Naftali Bennett, who in our current poll is recording not just a decline, but a steep, live landslide: the 'Together' party he leads is officially falling to a single-digit number of just 9 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To understand the magnitude of the event, one must look at the significance of the numbers: the gap between Bennett-Lapid's nine seats and Eisenkot's 'Yashar' party (21 seats) is already more than double.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the growing gap between Eisenkot and Bennett is not the only problem for 'Behad.' Bennett currently finds himself on the back bench of the bloc, as the third largest party on the center-left, below Yair Golan, sharing this exact slot with Avigdor Lieberman - 9 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bennett's situation looks like someone who bungee jumped from a high bridge, only to forget to check if the rope was tied to his feet. His momentum is completely negative, he is in free fall, and when this snowball starts rolling down the slope - there is no safety net to stop the painful encounter with the ground. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The attempt to come from the right and become a leader in the center-left bloc suffers a severe blow when confronted with reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, the right-wing bloc shows slight signs of stabilization. The bloc still does not have a majority, but the Likud maintains 29 seats and the bloc increases by one seat to 59, more than in the past two weeks, but still much less than the majority the bloc had in the past two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The right's big challenge, as we see in the in-depth polls, is despondency: tens of thousands of right-wingers, in considerable numbers, are still "sitting on the fence" and are reluctant to express support. The feeling of despondency and disappointment among right-wing voters, including significant parts of Shas' base, is currently the number one enemy of two: Aryeh Deri and Benjamin Netanyahu. The right will be required to straighten out its ranks quite a bit - and the last word on this matter has certainly not been said yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another important statistic in the survey is the state of the collection of new political alliances at the center of the political map. None of them pass the threshold, but several of them receive a nice base figure of more than 1.5%, a figure that in certain alliances could connect the penny to the pound and pass the threshold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There is not a sea of \u200b\u200bmandates, as the discourse around them might mislead, but these are precisely the mandates that may decide the composition of the next government. Even in the center of the map, the last word has not yet been said. Keep an eye out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sample was collected and compiled by Direct Polls Ltd., headed by Tzuriel Sharon, for the i24NEWS channel, on July 9, 2026, using a digital system combined with a panel, among 527 adult respondents (18+) who constitute a representative sample of the general population in Israel. 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