A television poll aired Wednesday showed that the bloc of opposition parties led by Gadi Eisenkot would win a 61-seat majority in Knesset and be able to form a government, the first major poll showing such a result in over a month, as election season heats up ahead of the October 27 polling date.

According to the Channel 13 survey, Eisenkot’s Yashar party would win 21 seats, second only to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud at 22 seats as the largest party.

The next three largest parties all belong to the anti-Netanyahu bloc, with the survey putting former prime minister Naftali Bennett’s centrist Together party at 15 seats, Yair Golan’s left-wing Democrats at 11, and Avigdor Liberman’s hawkish Yisrael Beytenu at 10.

Rounding out the opposition bloc, the Channel 13 poll gave former minister Yoaz Hendel’s new alliance with Chili Tropper four seats in Knesset, just clearing the threshold and giving the anti-Netanyahu movement a clear 61-seat majority and a mandate to form a government.

For Netanyahu’s bloc, the survey gave ultra-Orthodox parties United Torah Judaism and Shas eight and seven seats, respectively.

Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit would also win seven seats, the poll showed. Fellow far-right Finance Minister’s Religious Zionism party would get six.

Arab parties Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am would win five and four seats, respectively. Balad, a far-left Arab party, would fail to get enough votes to enter the Knesset, as would Benny Gantz’s Blue and........

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