Political surveys that aired Tuesday projected a very close race between Yamina and Likud in the next elections, giving the latter a narrow, four-seat lead.
Still, polls on both Channel 13 News and Kan 11 News predicted that the right-wing bloc will grow stronger and will be able to form a coalition even without a centrist party the likes of Blue and White.
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According to Channel 13 News, were elections held at this time, Likud would win 27 Knesset seats and Naftali Bennett's Yamina party would secure 23 mandates.
Yamina has been growing steadily stronger in the polls, and it seems the national-religious faction comprising the New Right and National Union parties will pose a significant challenge for Likud.
The survey, conducted by the Midgam polling institute projected that Yesh Atid would win 20 Knesset seats, followed by the Joint Arab List (12), Blue and White (10), Yisrael Beytenu (8), ultra-Orthodox Sephardi party Shas and its Ashkenazi counterpart United Torah Judaism (seven seats each), and Meretz, with six seats.
As previous polls have shown, the Labor, Gesher, Habayit Hayehudi, Derech Eretz, and the far-Right Otzma Yehudit parties are not expected to past the prerequisite four-Knesset-seat electoral threshold.
As for the political blocs, the poll projected that the right-wing bloc – Likud, Yamina and the Haredi parties – would secure 64 mandates, which is enough to form a government. The center-left bloc – Yesh Atid, Blue and White, Meretz, and the Joint Arab List – secured 48 mandates.
As in previous polls, Yisrael Beytenu, which could effectively join either bloc, was not counted in the tally.
Kan 11 News' poll gave the Likud 31 seats, followed by Yamina (21), Yesh Atid (17), the Joint Arab List (11), Blue and White, Shas and Yisrael Beytenu (nine seats each), United Torah Judaism (7) and Meretz (6).
Kan's survey projected a 68-seat majority for the right-wing bloc, compared to 43 seats for the center-left bloc.
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