Recent polling ahead of Israel's October 27 Knesset election shows Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party as the largest or tied for largest, with the broader opposition "change bloc" competitive against Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition at roughly 52 seats each—both short of a 61-seat majority. This positioning reflects Eisenkot's appeal as a former IDF chief who resigned from the war cabinet over Gaza strategy, enabling his new party to draw centrist and right-leaning support while opposition leaders pledged cooperation in late September without fully resolving a unified prime ministerial candidate. Netanyahu's Likud remains resilient in some surveys but trails in others amid ongoing coalition challenges, keeping trader consensus on Eisenkot highest at 48.6 percent followed by Netanyahu at 29.5 percent and Naftali Bennett's Together list at 12.5 percent. Coalition arithmetic and smaller parties like those led by Avigdor Lieberman will likely decide the outcome.