Return expects support for them.. Poll shows Bennett-Lapid alliance achieving 24 seats

Translation by SadaNews - A new Israeli opinion poll, conducted today Monday and published this evening on the Hebrew channel Reshet Kan, shows that the newly announced political alliance between opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett would achieve 24 seats if elections were held these days.

According to the poll, the Likud party led by Benjamin Netanyahu will remain the largest party with 27 seats (compared to 25 seats in the previous poll).

The "Yashar" party, led by former general Gadi Eisenkot, will secure the third place with 15 seats, while the Democratic Party led by Yair Golan will come in fourth with 11 seats. The Jewish Power party led by Itamar Ben Gvir will obtain 9 seats, which is the same number of seats that the Shas party led by Aryeh Deri will achieve.

The opinion poll indicates, according to SadaNews translation, that the Yisrael Beiteinu party led by Avigdor Lieberman will get 8 seats, and Yahadut HaTorah 7 seats, with the Hadash-Ta’al Arab coalition led by Ayman Odeh securing 5 seats, and the same for the Arab List led by Mansour Abbas.

Thus, Netanyahu's bloc would have 52 seats, while the opposition bloc would secure 58 seats, and the Arab parties would receive 10 seats.

Ayman Odeh stated that his list intends to do everything in its power to prevent the current right-wing government from continuing for another term.

When asked whether he would support Naftali Bennett for the premiership, despite the latter’s statements that he would not lean towards Arab parties, which Odeh described as "racist statements", he clarified that he does not rule out supporting him from the outside.

Odeh said, as translated by SadaNews: We differentiate between the racists and the fascists... If our vote is decisive, we must continue to nominate someone to take Netanyahu's place... This is not the time to mention names, we will focus on the elections first, assess the situation, and then negotiate.