PHILADELPHIA – September 17, 2026 – The Middle East Forum today opened israelvote.meforum.org, a public tracker of every published seat projection for Israel’s 26th Knesset election on 27 October 2026. The site compiles the 308 polls released in 2026 by Israel’s broadcasters and newspapers, links each row to the publisher’s original report, and averages the newest poll from each polling house over the last 14 days into a single 120 seat projection.
As of today the average draws on 16 polling houses with fieldwork from 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-17: Yashar 24, Likud 23, Together 12, The Democrats 10, Joint List 8, Otzma Yehudit 8, Shas 8, United Torah Judaism 8, Yisrael Beytenu 8, Religious Zionism with Zehut 6, Ra’am 5. The Netanyahu bloc, meaning the parties of the 37th government, stands at 53 seats, the opposition parties at 54 and the Arab parties at 13; 61 seats form a majority. The pollsters’ own government bloc figure averages 51.2. The average is an MEF calculation and is unaudited.
“We built one page that holds all of it, with the original link attached to every figure, so that a congressional staffer in Washington and a reader in Tel Aviv are looking at the same table.”
The method is deliberately plain. Each polling house counts once, with its newest poll in the window; results under the 3.25 percent threshold count as zero seats; the party means are scaled to 120 by largest remainder; no weighting by sample size is applied. Scenario polls that test hypothetical mergers or leaders are excluded. House effects are left visible rather than corrected, and readers can filter the full table by pollster to see them. Channel 14’s polls, for example, have run several seats above the field for the government bloc through 2026.
The site has five sections: the poll of polls with the seat chart and a trend panel for every party; all polls, a filterable table of every 2026 projection with the primary link on each row; party pages with leaders, bloc, history, and the candidate lists as filed with the Central Elections Committee; an election calendar; and a method page that names every poll in the current average. The underlying data is published as JSON. The tracker is refreshed the same day new polls are published.
“Israeli polling is published in Hebrew, across a dozen outlets, at all hours, and most of what reaches English readers is a single headline number with no source,” said Gregg Roman, executive director of the Middle East Forum. “We built one page that holds all of it, with the original link attached to every figure, so that a congressional staffer in Washington and a reader in Tel Aviv are looking at the same table.”
The tracker is a research product of the Middle East Forum. MEF endorses no party or candidate. Corrections and source questions go to info@meforum.org.
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