Were the next elections to be held at this time, the right-wing bloc would win 67 Knesset seats, enough to form a government on its own. The center-left, without Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beytenu party, would receive 46 seats, according to a new poll published by Channel 12 News on Thursday.
The poll projected Likud would win 30 seats, to Yamina's 21, while Blue and White would drop to just 10 seats.
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Both Yesh Atid and the Joint Arab List would secure 17 seats each, followed by ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties with eight seats each, and Yisrael Beytenu and Meretz with seven seats each.
Here, too, the Labor, Gesher, Habayit Hayehudi, Derech Eretz ahd far-Right Otzma Yehudit parties cross the prerequisite four-Knesset-seat electoral threshold.
A reunited Yesh Atid-Telem and Blue and White faction, with Blue and White leader Gantz serving as No.2 to Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid, would secure 25 seats, two fewer than both parties would receive if they were to run separately in the election. The move would see the Likud gain one seat for a total of 31.
Asked how a possible bid by Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai as Yesh Atid-Telem's No.2 would impact the election, respondents gave the faction 21 seats, the same as Yamina. Likud would garner 30 seats, while Blue and White would be knocked down to seven seats.
Respondents were also asked which politician they thought was most suited to serve as Israel's prime minister: 31% said named PM Benjamin Netanyahu, 18% said Yamina head Naftali Bennett and 13% named Lapid. Just 7% of respondents said Gantz was best-suited for the job. Twenty-one percent of respondents said no one was suited for the job, while 8% said they didn't know.
Forty percent of respondents said they believed Netanyahu was largely responsible for the fact that Israel appeared to be heading toward another election. Twenty percent blamed the development on Gantz. A quarter of respondents blamed both Netanyahu and Gantz to the same degree.
The survey was carried out by the Midgam polling institute among a representative sample of 500 Israelis 18 and over with a margin of error of 4.4%.
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