A joint list of Arab parties would win 14 of the Knesset’s 120 seats if elections were held today, continuing to prevent a parliamentary majority from either Zionist opposition parties or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, according to a poll published Thursday by Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew-language sister site.

The result represented a two-seat dip from last week’s poll for the Joint List, which Arab party leaders vowed to work toward reviving last month, and which is expected to command more Knesset seats than the parties collectively would if they were to run separately.

Still, the result precluded the option of a government composed solely of Zionist opposition parties, which won a combined 54 seats, or of Netanyahu’s current coalition, which won a combined 52 seats. Leaders of both blocs have rejected the prospect of a government reliant on Arab parties.

Netanyahu’s bloc would fail to form a government even if joined by the four seats awarded in the new poll to Benny Gantz’s Blue and White, the only Zionist opposition party that has expressed openness to forming a government with the premier.

Zionist opposition parties, meanwhile, would fail to form a government even if Arab party Ra’am were to splinter from the Joint List and join them in a constellation similar to the short-lived........

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