Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked
Naftali Bennett and Ayelet ShakedYossi Zeliger/Flash90

The new political party founded by former Jewish Home ministers Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked would win 10 seats if new elections were held today, a new poll shows.

The survey, conducted by Panels Politics and published by Walla! Sunday, shows the split between the Jewish Home and its two former leaders increasing the number of seats the two factions could win in the Knesset, compared to the number previous polls showed the Jewish Home winning if it remained intact.

On Saturday night, Education Minister Bennett and Justice Minister Shaked announced that they would be breaking away from the Jewish Home and forming a new faction, called the New Right (HaYamin Hahadash).

While the party could join with the Jewish Home in an alliance after the April 9th vote, the New Right will compete against the Jewish Home in the elections for the 21st Knesset.

According to the new poll, the Likud would remain the largest party, but would lose three mandates to the new Bennett-Shaked party, falling from 31 seats in the previous poll to 28. The Likud currently has 30 seats.

The New Right itself would win 10 seats, compared to just four for the Jewish Home, which would barely cross the 3.25% minimum electoral threshold. The combined 14 seats for the New Right and Jewish Home exceeds the recent poll numbers for the Jewish Home with Naftali Bennett remaining as its chief. Recent polls showed the Jewish Home winning no more than 11 to 12 seats. The Jewish Home currently has eight seats in the Knesset.

Former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party would fall to four seats, two less than it won in 2015, and one less than it currently has, following the departure of MK Orly Levy in 2016.

MK Levy’s new party, Gesher, would win four seats, while Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu would plummet from 10 mandates to just 5.

Among the haredi factions, the Sephardic Shas party would barely clear the minimum threshold with four seats – a loss of three seats - while the Ashkenazi United Torah Judaism party would win seven seats, a gain of one mandate.

Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party would win 15 seats, a gain of four mandates compared to 2015, while the Zionist Union, a joint list of Labor and Hatnuah, would fall from 24 seats to just 9.

Former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz’s new Hosen L’Yisrael (Resilience for Israel) faction would win 11 seats a decline of two seats since the previous Panels poll.

The far-left Meretz faction would win six seats, a gain of one mandate compared to 2015, while the predominantly Arab Joint List faction would retain the 13 seats it currently holds.