Knesset seats poll: Netanyahu bloc loses seats, Lapid and Gantz gain strength

A poll of Knesset seats published on Channel 12 News on Tuesday evening reveals that if elections were held today, the Likud Party would weaken by three seats and the Religious Zionist and Otzma Yehudit parties would together lose two seats.
Benny Gantz”s National Unity Party and Yair Lapid”s Yesh Atid Party would each gain two seats, while the Labor Party would remain outside picture and would fall below the electoral threshold.
The seat distribution, according to the Channel 12 News poll is as follows: Likud with 29 seats, Yesh Atid – 26, National Unity Party – 14, Religious Zionist Party and Otzma Yehudit – 12, Shas – 11, United Torah Judaism – 7, Yisrael Beytenu – 6, Ra’am – 6, Hadash-Ta’al- 5, Meretz – 4.

Below the electoral threshold: The Labor Party led by Merav Michaeli, which receives 2.8% of the votes, and the Balad Party, led by Samy Abu Shahadeh, which receives only 2%.
The results of the poll show that if the elections were held today, the group of Netanyahu supporters would secure 59 seats, and the group of Netanyahu’s opponents would achieve 56 seats.

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