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Count to 61

No Israeli party has ever won a majority on its own, so every government is a coalition. Stack slips until you reach 61.

Where it stands

Polling average of the 10 most recent surveys, grouped by where each list stands on sitting with Netanyahu.

Netanyahu bloc

51 seats
Likudמחל22 seats
Shasשס8 seats
United Torah Judaismג8 seats
Otzma Yehudit7 seats
Religious Zionismט6 seats

Lists that would sit in a Netanyahu government.

Change bloc

52 seats
Yasharדרך23 seats
B'Yachad12 seats
The Democratsאמת9 seats
Yisrael Beiteinuל8 seats

Lists that have ruled out serving under him.

Arab parties

12 seats
The Joint Listודם7 seats
Ra'amעם5 seats

Courted by neither bloc, and mostly ruling both out.

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Netanyahu bloc 51, 10 short of 61Change bloc 52, 9 short of 61Arab parties 12

Who has ruled out whom

The seat totals are the easy part. Each line is a public statement about who a list will not sit with, and politicians have walked such statements back before.

  • Ben-Gvir and Ra'am have publicly ruled out sitting together.
  • Otzma Yehudit and the Joint List rule each other out.
  • Religious Zionism refuses Arab-party partners, and vice versa.
  • Religious Zionism and the Joint List rule each other out.
  • Liberman has refused to sit with Haredi parties since 2019.
  • Eisenkot conditions any partnership on change at the top of Likud.
  • Bennett and Lapid built their alliance on replacing Netanyahu.
  • The Democrats rule out serving under Netanyahu.
  • Eisenkot's declared conditions exclude Otzma Yehudit.
  • No party on the Joint List has joined an Israeli governing coalition, and Balad rejects doing so on principle.

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