If elections were held today, the Blue and White Party would lead with 34 Knesset seats, three more than the Likud, according to a Monday-evening poll by Channel 12 News.

A Likud-led rightwing-religious-haredi bloc would get 57 mandates, of which six would go to the New Right Party and five for the United Jewish Home, which tentatively includes the National Union and Otzma Yehudit Parties. That compares to 43 seats for a bloc composed of Blue and White and the newly-merged Labor-Gesher and Meretz Parties.

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