Shea Levin — text status

*NEW HIGH FOR NETANYAHU BLOC:* Channel 13’s latest election poll gives Prime Minister Netanyahu’s bloc 55 seats, its strongest showing in the network’s standard polling during the current 2026 election campaign. The bloc is now six seats short of the 61 needed to form a government. Channel 14’s poll, meanwhile, gives the right-wing bloc 63 seats, two above the 61-seat majority threshold.