An Israel Hayom poll conducted with the Maagar Mochot Institute over the past two days shows that in the event of an early election, Benny Gantz's State Party would become the largest faction in the Knesset with 28 seats and make the Center-Left bloc in a position to form a majority government. Likud would be the second largest part, with 27 projected seats, and Yesh Atid third with 21.
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Labor, in such a scenario, would not get enough seats to cross the electoral threshold while left-wing party Meretz, which failed to win enough votes to enter the current Knesset, would get 5 seats. Arab party Balad will also not win any seats.
As for the overall divide in the event new elections were called, the Right-Haredim bloc is likely to garner 53 seats, while the Center-Left 63. Hadash-Ta'al, which is unlikely to enter a coalition with either side, will likely get four seats.
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Some 62% of respondents said they gave the government bad marks, including 30% of its supporters.
When asked about whether the efforts to overhaul the judiciary were hurting or strengthening Israel, some 52% said they made Israel weaker while 26% said they made it stronger.
A majority of the public also rejects the bill that limits the Supreme Court's ability to strike down government decisions. Some 61% responded that they opposed the bill, which passed this week, while 39% said they did not, including 24% of Likud voters.
Almost 50% said that the rest of the judicial reform bills should only be passed through consensus while 24% said that they should be shelved.
The poll was carried out under the auspices of Yitzhak Katz, the founder and the CEO of Maagar Mochot, with a sample of 502 Israelis aged 18 and up. The margin of error is 4.4 percentage points.
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