If elections were held today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc would fall far short of a majority, but the Zionist opposition would also not manage a majority, according to most of the weekly opinion polls released Thursday and Friday.

According to a survey by Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew-language sister site, if elections were held today, Netanyahu’s Likud would receive 28 of 120 Knesset seats, followed by Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar! and former prime minister Naftali Bennett’s Bennett 2026 party, with 16 each.

Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu would garner 10 seats, followed by Shas and The Democrats with 9 each, United Torah Judaism with 8, Otzma Yehudit with 6, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid and the Islamist Ra’am with 5 each, and Hadash-Ta’al and Blue and White each with 4.

The poll put the current coalition at 51 seats in total, while the Zionist opposition would receive 60 and the Arab-majority parties 9. Neither side would be able to assemble a 61-strong majority and form a government without Arab-party support.

If Eisenkot, Lapid and Bennett ran together, their combined list would receive 38 seats, making it the largest faction in the Knesset, but it would not significantly change the size of the blocs, the poll found.

The poll was conducted April 15-16 by Tatika Research and Media in collaboration with the Adgenda panel, with 500 Jewish and Arab respondents. The margin of error was 4.4........

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