National Unity chief MK Benny Gantz is once again the top pick for prime minister, a new poll by Channel 12 News showed.
The poll, conducted by Midgam and published Tuesday evening, showed that if elections were held today, the National Unity party would win 28 seats, up from 27 in the previous poll. At the same time, the Likud would drop to 26 seats, down from 27 in the previous poll. Yesh Atid would be the third-largest party, and retain the 18 seats it had in the previous poll.
If Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit ran together, they would receive 10 Knesset seats, while running separately would give Otzma Yehudit six seats and Religious Zionism four seats.
Sephardic-haredi Shas is projected to win ten seats, while Ashkenazic-haredi United Torah Judaism would win seven seats.
Yisrael Beytenu and the United Arab List (Ra’am) would win six seats each, and left-wing Meretz, which is currently not in the Knesset, would pass the threshold with five seats. Labor, however, would lose its Knesset seats, falling below the electoral threshold with just 1.7% of the vote. The Arab Hadash-Ta’al party is projected to win four seats.
Divide into blocs, the center-left parties are projected to win 63 Knesset seats, while the current coalition parties are projected to win 53 seats. Hadash-Ta’al, which holds the remaining four seats, is not expected to join any coalition.
When asked who is most fit to serve as prime minister, Benny Gantz received the support of 36% of respondents, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received the support of just 34%. However, when respondents were asked to choose between MK Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) and Netanyahu, Lapid received 28% support, while Netanyahu received 38% support.
Meanwhile, 40% of the respondents believe that the judicial reform should be passed only with a broad consensus, while 15% support passing it unilaterally, and 29% support completely shelving the reform. Among those who voted for the current coalition, 46% say the reform should pass only with a broad consensus, while 29% support passing it unilaterally.
