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According to the poll, the incumbent prime minister will receive 54 seats, with his opponents' bloc, in their refusel to work with the Arab parties, receiving 52. The Arab parties secure 14 seats

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A Channel 13 News poll published Wednesday evening predicts that the bloc supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will win 54 seats, two seats more than an opposing bloc of Jewish parties whose leaders said they would not form a coalition that includes Arab parties.

According to the poll, the total number of seats won by Arab parties United Arab List and Join List is 14, and the Reservists, led by Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelekha, do not pass the electoral threshold.

The poll shows that Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party weakens by one seat but remains the largest party with 21 seats. It is followed by Netanyahu's Likud with 19 seats, one more than the previous poll.

The Together party, led by Naftali Bennett, and the Democrats, led by Yair Golan, each have 11 seats. The Joint List gains one seat, winning nine seats, as does Yisrael Beiteinu.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit also gained a seat, bringing it to a total of eight seats. The ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party maintains its strength with eight seats, followed by Shas and Religious Zionism with seven seats each. Ra'am and Amkha Yisrael receive five seats, as in the previous poll.

Among the parties that do not pass the electoral threshold according to the poll was MK Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan (0.9%).

The poll was conducted by Shmuel Rosner's and Noah Salpakov's Hamadad in cooperation with Yosef Makladeh's Stat-Net, Dr. Ariel Ayalon's Project Hamidgam and Dudi Dror's Askaria. 1,103 people responded to the survey, and the sampling error is 2.5%.