The electoral alliance led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid is shedding support as rival opposition party Yashar makes gains, according to a pair of television polls aired Wednesday evening.

Both Channel 13 news and the Kan public broadcaster’s surveys said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party would pick up the most seats if elections were held immediately, receiving 23 and 24 respectively.

The next largest party was predicted to be Yashar, led by former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, which received 20 seats in the Channel 13 survey and 22 seats in the Kan poll.

Trailing Likud and Yashar was Together, a merger between the parties led by Bennet and Lapid. Channel 13 gave Together 15 seats, while Kan gave it 16.

Yisrael Beytenu was the next largest party, receiving 12 and 10 seats respectively in the Channel 13 and Kan surveys.

It was followed in the Channel 13 poll by The Democrats with 10 seats, then far-right Otzma Yehudit with nine, the ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism with eight each, the majority Arab Hadash-Ta’al with six, far-right Religious Zionism with five and Islamist Ra’am with four.

Kan gave Otzma Yehudit nine seats and the same number to The Democrats, while Shas had eight, UTJ seven, Hadash-Ta’al six, Religious Zionism five and Ra’am four.

Neither poll gave Benny Gantz’s Blue and White enough to pass the four-seat threshold for entry into the Knesset. The fledgling Reservists party led........

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