Following last week's poll showing the National Unity and Likud parties winning the same number of seats, a new poll conducted by Panels Politics for Maariv's weekend paper showed the National Unity party surpassing the Likud in power.
According to the new poll, if elections were held today, the National Unity party would win 29 Knesset seats, while the Likud would win 26 seats. Yesh Atid would be third-largest in the Knesset, with 18 seats.
The poll also showed Shas as receiving nine Knesset seats, followed by United Torah Judaism with seven seats. Three parties would win six seats each: the Arab Hadash-Ta'al, Religious Zionism, and Yisrael Beytenu. The United Arab List (Ra'am) would win five seats.
Otzma Yehudit and left-wing Meretz would win four seats each, making them the smallest parties in the Knesset.
Neither Labor nor the Arab Balad would pass the electoral threshold.
Divided into blocs, the right-religious bloc would receive 52 Knesset seats, while the center-left bloc receives 62 Knesset seats, rendering it - for the first time - able to form a government. The remaining six seats are held by Hadash-Ta'al, which is not expected to join any coalition.
The poll also asked respondents who they prefer for the position of prime minister. National Unity's MK Benny Gantz received 43% of the vote, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received 39% of the vote.