Shea Levin — text status

Just nine days before Israel’s elections, a new i24NEWS poll shows Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud leading with 25 seats, followed by Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar with 21, Naftali Bennett with 13, Otzma Yehudit with 10, and the Democrats with 9. Shas, United Torah Judaism, and the Joint List each receive 8 seats, while Yisrael Beiteinu, Ra’am, and the Religious Zionism–Zehut alliance each receive 6. Netanyahu’s bloc totals 57 seats, four short of the 61 needed to form a government.