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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged coalition partners Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich to unite, after a Times of Israel poll showed a new party led by Winter surging to 6 seats, potentially pushing Religious Zionism below the electoral threshold. Netanyahu warned that a fractured right-wing bloc could cost the coalition the October 27 election. Ben Gvir rejected Netanyahu's plea to ally his Jewish Power party with Smotrich's Religious Zionism, prompting Likud to publicly criticize Ben Gvir for splitting the far-right vote and jeopardizing the bloc's chances against Winter's rising party.