Eisenkot's Yashar Leads Likud 23 to 21 in Final Pre-Election Poll
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Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party led Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud by 23 Knesset seats to 21 in a final pre-election survey released on October 23. The poll put the current coalition at 50 seats, Zionist change parties at 56 and Arab-majority parties at 14, leaving neither of the first two groupings alone with the 61 seats needed for a majority. Naftali Bennett's Together party was projected to win 15 seats. Midgam, led by Mano Geva, surveyed 1,018 Israeli adults online and by telephone on October 22–23, reporting a maximum sampling error of ±4.4 percentage points.