Blue and White

Blue and White is the centrist party of former defense minister and IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, which ran as National Unity in 2022 (12 seats) and briefly joined the wartime emergency government in 2023–2024. National Unity led the polls by a wide margin in late 2023 and early 2024, peaking at 43 seats (Lazar Research for Maariv, 23 Nov 2023). It reverted to the Blue and White name in July 2025 after Gadi Eisenkot and Matan Kahana left, lost Hili Tropper and others in 2026, and fell below the threshold in most 2026 polls.

Blue and White is Benny Gantz's centrist party. Gantz, a former IDF chief of staff, founded Israel Resilience in December 2018 and joined Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid and Moshe Ya'alon's Telem in the Blue and White alliance, which won 35, 33 and 33 seats in the three elections of 2019–2020 and tied or edged Likud. In 2020 Gantz broke with Lapid to form a rotation government with Benjamin Netanyahu, serving as Defense Minister and Alternate Prime Minister; the rump Blue and White won 8 seats in 2021 and joined the Bennett–Lapid government. In 2022 Blue and White joined Gideon Sa'ar's New Hope, with former chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, to form National Unity (HaMahane HaMamlakhti), which won 12 seats. After 7 October 2023 Gantz brought National Unity into an emergency government and the war cabinet, and the party surged in polls, routinely projected at well over 30 seats in late 2023 and early 2024 and leading Likud, peaking at 43 seats in a Lazar Research poll for Maariv on 23 November 2023. New Hope split off in March 2024, Gantz left the government in June 2024, and the party's support then eroded steadily; Gadi Eisenkot and Matan Kahana left in June–July 2025 (Eisenkot founded Yashar), and on 2 July 2025 Gantz announced the party would revert to the Blue and White name; the Knesset faction became Blue and White–National Unity on 7 July 2025. Hili Tropper and Eitan Ginzburg left in May 2026. For the 2026 election Gantz runs under the original Blue and White name (ballot letters כן). Its list is headed by Gantz, former Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, former Beit Shemesh mayor Aliza Bloch and MK Alon Schuster. During the 2026 campaign the list has polled at or below the electoral threshold.

Made up of: Israel Resilience Party

Polling

Grey lines are lists polled under their own names before they became Blue and White: National Unity (Gantz).