The Reservists-Economic Party

Reservists-Economic Party await double envelopes as Hendel blames media for low support

With 85.6% of the vote counted, Hendel’s Reservists-Economic Party has received roughly 2.6% of the general vote, leaving them about 100,000 votes shy of the 3.25% threshold.

Economic Party leader Yaron Zelekha and Reservists party leader Yoaz Hendel hold a press conference announcing their joint run in the election, in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2026
(L-R) Yoaz Hendel, Ofer Winter, and Moti Leitner

People of Israel, Reservists-Economic, Haredi Public fall short of threshold in Israeli election

Yisrael Beytenu petitions Elections Committee over Shas distribution of kippot at polling station, October 27, 2026.

Parties file complaints over defaced, vandalized, missing ballots, alleged voter tracking

(L-R): Yashar head Gadi Eisenkot; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Eisenkot leads Netanyahu but deadlock looms, election polls show two days before Israelis vote


Nearly half of Israelis equally blame government, IDF for October 7 failures, poll finds

N12's poll also found broad support for an Oct. 7 state inquiry and sharp political divisions over Netanyahu's responsibility for the massacre, while Eisenkot's Yashar emerged as the largest party.

The Nova Music Festival memorial, pictured October 6, 2026.

Knesset polls show wide disparities, ultimate outcome still unclear in heated election race

While Channel 14 and i24NEWS give Likud a clear advantage, polls by Maariv, N12, and Channel 13 show Gadi Eisenkot leading or nearly tied with the party.

 The Knesset building, home of Israel's legislature, in Jerusalem, on November 14, 2022 (Illustrative).

Haredi parties, Yashar, coalition bloc lose seats in Knesset, as Otzma Yehudit gains one - poll

Elsewhere in the bloc, the Democrats gained two seats to reach 11, while B’Yachad remained at 13, Yisrael Beytenu at nine and the joint Reservists-Economic Party at four seats.

A PLENUM session at the Knesset.

Majority believe Israel should help Saudis against Houthis as Likud continues downward trend - poll

Thirty-eight percent said such assistance should be conditioned on a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, while 16% supported assisting the kingdom even without diplomatic return.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman

Israel Election 2026: What are you voting for when you choose a party hovering at the threshold?

"If I put this ballot in the box, what government, policies, and political reality am I helping create?"

 A man casts his vote in the Israeli general elections, at a polling station in Jerusalem, on November 1, 2022.