Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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A poll conducted by the Lazar Research Institute and published Friday morning by Maariv shows the right-wing bloc strengthening to 51 seats, as the center-left bloc weakens to 57.

According to the poll, if elections were held today, the Yashar! party would win 23 seats, while Likud would receive 20.

The "Together" party led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid would come in third place with 15 seats, followed by the Democrats 10 seats.

Among the smaller parties, Yisrael Beytenu would win nine seats, and Otzma Yehudit eight seats. Three parties would win seven seats each: United Torah Judaism, the joint Hadash-Ta'al-Balad slate, and Shas 7.

The United Arab List (Ra'am) and, the Religious Zionist Party-Zehut alliance would win five seats each, and Ofer Winter's Amcha Yisrael would scrape past the threshold with four seats.

In this poll, the combined share of votes going to parties that fail to cross the electoral threshold would fall to 6.7%, although this still represents the equivalent of approximately eight Knesset seats.

Failing to pass the electoral threshold are the Zionist Home-Reservists party with 2.1%, the Economic Party with 1.7%, the Ha'achdut party with 1.1%, Blue and White with 0.6%, and the "Haredi Public" party with just 0.4%.

Among voters for parties in the anti-Netanyahu bloc, 52% support party mergers ahead of the elections, while 27% believe the existing parties should run separately. Support for mergers among center-left voters is slightly higher among supporters of the Democrats, at 57%, and Yisrael Beytenu, at 55%.