Yashar
ישר!
Yashar won 21 of the 120 seats in the election of 27 October 2026, with 913,629 votes (16.05%).
Yashar is a centrist party that Gadi Eisenkot founded in September 2025. Eisenkot is a former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces and sat in the Knesset for National Unity. The party also goes by Yashar! with Eisenkot.
In its first election, on 27 October 2026, it won 21 seats, second only to Likud.
- Leader
- Gadi Eisenkot
- Founded
- 16 September 2025
- In the 26th Knesset
- 21 seats
The best result of Yashar since 2013 was 21 seats, in the election of 2026.
Seats won in each Knesset election since 2013. Where Yashar ran inside a joint list, the column is the whole list's seats.
| Election | List | Letters | Votes | Share | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Yashar | 913,629 | 16.1% | 21 |
The results are the Central Elections Committee's; 2026 is the committee's official results of 4 November 2026. The committee's results
Yashar has 21 members in the 26th Knesset.
Gadi Eisenkot
No. 1 on the list
Yoram Cohen
No. 2 on the list
Orit Farkash-Hacohen
No. 3 on the list
Adi Altschuler
No. 4 on the list
Matan Kahana
No. 5 on the list
Hili Tropper
No. 6 on the list
Shaul Meridor
No. 7 on the list
Tair Ifergan
No. 8 on the list
Oshrat Gani Gonen
No. 9 on the list
Shira Shapira
No. 10 on the list
Inbar Harush Gity
No. 11 on the list
Elazar Stern
No. 12 on the list
Kamil Abu Rokon
No. 13 on the list
Devorah Sharifian Bachar
No. 14 on the list
Alex Rif
No. 15 on the list
Inbar Yehezkeli
No. 16 on the list
Roy Folkman
No. 17 on the list
Israel Zari
No. 18 on the list
Tal Ohana
No. 19 on the list
Elisaf Peretz
No. 20 on the list
Yaffa Tabaja
No. 21 on the list
In the election of 2026, Yashar took its highest share of the vote in Isfiya, 64.2%.
The five towns of at least 5,000 eligible voters where its list did best that year.
- Isfiya64.2%
- Daliyat al-Karmel55.6%
- Julis46.4%
- Yanuh-Jat41.1%
- Ramat HaSharon36.9%
These parties are part of the story of Yashar.
- National UnityNational Unity, also called the State Camp, was the alliance of Benny Gantz's Blue and White and Gideon Sa'ar's New Hope, joined by Gadi Eisenkot and Matan Kahana, for the election of 2022, in which it won 12 seats.
- Blue and WhiteBlue and White is a centrist party that Benny Gantz, a former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, founded in December 2018 under the name Israel Resilience.
Frequently asked questions
Who leads Yashar?
Gadi Eisenkot leads Yashar.
When was Yashar founded?
Yashar was founded on 16 September 2025.
How many seats does Yashar have in the Knesset?
Yashar won 21 of the 120 seats in the election of 27 October 2026, with 913,629 votes (16.05%).
Sources: English Wikipedia, Yashar (political party), Hebrew Wikipedia, ישר!, the Central Elections Committee.