Former prime minister Naftali Bennett and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s combined electoral list, dubbed “Together,” would receive a total of 26 seats if elections were held Monday, placing them ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud as the Knesset’s largest party, according to a new poll by Channel 12.

In the poll — the network’s first since Sunday night’s announcement of the union, Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc only garnered 50 out of 120 Knesset seats while the Zionist opposition parties received 60 and the Arab factions 10 — an identical showing to last Thursday’s Channel 12 survey.

The combined Bennett-Lapid platform’s showing of 26 seats is one less than the two received separately in that previous poll, in which Bennett 2026 and Yesh Atid garnered 21 and 7 seats, respectively.

Together is followed by Likud with 25 seats; Gadi Eisenkot’s centrist Yashar at 15; the left-leaning Democrats at 10; the Mizrahi ultra-Orthodox Shas, the secular, right-wing Yisrael Beytenu and the far-right Otzma Yehudit at 9 each; the Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism at 7; and the Arab-majority Hadash-Ta’al and the Islamist Ra’am each with 5.

The ultra-nationalist Arab Balad party, the Reservists, Bezalel Smotrich’s far-right Religious Zionism, and Benny Gantz’s centrist Blue and White all fall below the electoral threshold.

According to the poll, in the event that Eisenkot would join Bennett........

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