Former prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid's new party, ‘Together,’ would win 27 seats if elections were held today, a poll shared by Walla on Monday showed.
The new party, formally presented as “Together, led by Naftali Bennett,” would receive four fewer seats than Bennett’s party and Yesh Atid had received together in previous polls.
The result suggests that the move has not significantly strengthened the anti-Netanyahu bloc, despite its high-profile launch.
The poll found that Likud would gain four seats, rising to 28 and making it the largest party, while the opposition bloc would fall short of a governing majority, with 59 seats.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition would receive 51 seats, and the Arab parties would hold 10, leaving neither side with the 61 seats needed to form a government.
Likud leads as Bennett-Lapid list underperforms
In the previous survey, Likud and “Bennett 2026” were tied at 24 seats each, and Bennett and Lapid’s parties together reached 31.
Additionally, former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot appears to benefit from the merger, with his party rising from 12 to 15 seats. The result positions him as a central player in the opposition camp.
If Eisenkot were to join Bennett and Lapid, the unified list would rise to 41 seats, making it far larger than Likud. Still, the bloc map would remain unchanged, with the opposition unable to reach a 61-seat majority without the Arab parties.
The poll marks a shift after four consecutive surveys in which the opposition bloc held 61 seats without relying on Arab parties. It now falls to 59 seats, while the coalition rises from 49 to 51.
The results suggest that the Bennett-Lapid alliance has not yet produced the electoral breakthrough its architects sought. Instead, it has created a larger party but not a larger bloc.
Bennett called Eisenkot only minutes before the merger announcement was sent to the media, urging him to join the party.
The working assumption behind the merger is that further alliances will be formed before election day and that the three parties will not ultimately run separately.
The Walla poll was conducted by Lazar Research among 500 respondents and has a margin of error of 4.4%.