A new poll aired by Channel 13 News on Wednesday nights projected that were elections held at this time, Likud would win 30 Knesset seats, and Naftali Bennett's Yamina party would secure 22 mandates.
The broadcaster's poll last week saw Likud win 31 seats to Yamina's 21 mandates, meaning that the national-religious alliance comprising the New Right and National Union parties is beginning to gnaw at Likud's political power.
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Yesh Atid held steady from the previous survey with 18 seats, followed by the Joint Arab List (12), Blue and White (8), Yisrael Beytenu (8), Meretz (8), and ultra-Orthodox Sephardi party Shas and Ashkenazi counterpart United Torah Judaism with seven mandates each.
As the previous poll indicated, here, too, Labor was not expected to past the prerequisite four-Knesset-seat electoral threshold.
Also falling below the electoral threshold are Gesher, Habayit Hayehudi, Derech Eretz, and the far-Right Otzma Yehudit parties.
These results left the overall blocs larges unchanged, with the right-wing bloc projected to win 66 Knesset seats and the center-left bloc 46. Yisrael Beytenu was marked as "undecided."
Asked who they believe is best suited for the role of prime minister, 31% of respondents named Netanyahu, compared to 32% last week.
Other results held steady with 18% saying Bennett was best suited for the premiership; 13% named Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, and only 10% chose Blue and White leader, current prime minister-designate Benny Gantz.
Another 28% of the respondents named other lawmakers or said they had no opinion on the matter.
Asked whether they believe the second coronavirus-inspired lockdown would help curb the pandemic or would simply put Israel on the path to a third lockdown,46% of the respondents said the measure would only be partially successful, forcing Israel to impose yet another shutdown later on.
Some 41% said the lockdown would fail.
As for how Netanyahu has been handling the coronavirus crisis, 58% of the respondents said they disapproved of government policies, 21% said they "somewhat approved" of them, and 12% expressed confidence in the Netanyahu's handling of the crisis.
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