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Israel’s opposition parties sign surplus-vote pacts for Knesset

By Drooid · Sep 11, 2026, 4:57 AM UTC · How we work

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Israel's four main opposition parties signed surplus-vote agreements to boost their Knesset bloc.
Yashar (Gadi Eisenkot) and B’Yachad (Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid) each signed surplus-vote pacts with Democrats and Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu.
Polls project the four parties winning 57 seats, with Yashar at 25 seats, four ahead of Likud.
The agreements take effect only if each pair exceeds the 3.25% electoral threshold, which all four currently surpass.

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Israel's four main opposition parties signed surplus-vote agreements to boost their Knesset bloc.
Yashar (Gadi Eisenkot) and B’Yachad (Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid) each signed surplus-vote pacts with Democrats and Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu.
Polls project the four parties winning 57 seats, with Yashar at 25 seats, four ahead of Likud.
The agreements take effect only if each pair exceeds the 3.25% electoral threshold, which all four currently surpass.