Likud is growing stronger in the polls as those seeking to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are faltering, Channel 13 News reported Sunday.
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Israelis will go to the polls on March 23, for the fourth time in two years. According to Channel 13 News, were elections held at this time, Likud would win 32 Knesset seats, followed by Yesh Atid (18), New Hope (14), Yamina (10), the Joint Arab List (10), Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox party United Torah Judaism (7), Sephardi Haredi party Shas (6), Yisrael Beytenu (6), Meretz (5), Blue and White (4), the Israelis party (4), and Labor (4).
The poll projected that the Economic, Religious Zionist, Telem, Tnufa, Gesher, Habayit Hayehudi, and Pensioners parties will not cross the prerequisite four-Knesset-seat electoral threshold, nor will the far-right Otzma Yehudit party.
The results give the Right bloc 45 mandates and the Center-Left bloc 65 – enough to unseat Netanyahu. This calculation excludes Yamina, whose leader, Naftali Bennett, could join either one.
The survey also looked into the effect potential mergers would have on the results.
A scenario where Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid mergers with Israelis party leader Ron Huldai would see the Right bloc secure only 46 mandates while the Center-Left bloc would win 63, and Yamina would win 11 seats.
A scenario in which Hatnuah leader Tzipi Livni announced a political comeback and joins forces with Lapid on the one hand, while on the other hand, Huldai joins forces with Lapid, Telem, Tnufa and Labor, would see Likud win 31 seats and Yesh Atid-Hatnuah secure 22 seats.
New Hope would win 14 mandates, followed by the Israelis-Tnufa-Telem-Labor alliance (9), Yamina (9), the Joint Arab List (9), United Torah Judaism (7), Shas (6), Yisrael Beytenu (5), Meretz (4) and Blue and White (4).
Here, too, the Economic, Religious Zionist, Gesher, Habayit Hayehudi, Pensioners, and Otzma Yehudit parties fail to cross the electoral threshold.
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