With 113 days to go before elections, the union between the Blue and White parties and New Hope parties announced by party leaders Benny Gantz and Gideon Saar, would see the two parties getting a combined 13 seats, according to a poll published by Channel 12 News.
Asked which party they would vote for if elections took place today, a sampling of 506 Israelis said they would pick the Likud, which ended up with 34 seats, Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid receivegd 23, Blue and White and New Hope came in third with 13, Religious Zionism ended up with 10, Shas with 8, United Torah Judaism with 7, and the Joint Arab List and Yisrael Beytenu receiving six apiece.
The Labor Party would get five seats, with Ra'am (United Arab List) and Meretz rounding off the list with four seats each. The addition of Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel would push Shaked's Yamina from its previous 1.9 to 2.8%, still well below the 3.25% voting threshold required to enter the Knesset.
If former chief of staff Gadi Eizenkot were to come aboard the Blue and White/New Hope party, it would would increase its results to 15, still remaining in third. The Likud would keep its 34, Yesh Atid would be down two with 21, Religious Zionism would remain at 10 seats, Shas at 8 and the UTJ at 7 seats.
The Joint List and Yisrael Beytenu would remain at 6, Labor would get 5, while Ra'am and Meretz would also remain at four apiece. In this scenario, Yamina would still receive 1.8% of the vote, once again remaining below the threshold. The Netanyahu-led coalition would get 59 seats, while the current government just 55.
Eizenkot joining Yesh Atid would give the party 24 seats, with the rest of the parties getting the same numbers as before except Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu slipping to 5.
In that case, the blocs would also remain the same, with the Netanyahu bloc remaining at 59 and the current coalition at 55 seats.
Hendel's joining Yamina would keep the results of the survey exactly as they were, with both blocs and parties getting the same number of seats as indicated in the original survey.