A poll Wednesday by Channel 12 shows little change in the current political deadlock that has seen Israel go to three consecutive elections in 11 months.
The poll gives Blue and White 35 seats, Likud 33, the predominately Arab Joint List 13, Labor-Gesher-Meretz 9, Shas 8, United Torah Judaism 8, Yisrael Beytenu 7, Yamina 7 and the extremist Otzma Yehudit no seats, as it garnered just 1.6% of votes, far below the 3.25% threshold for entering the 120-seat Knesset.
Those figures put a coalition of right-wing and Haredi parties backing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 56 seats, five short of a 61-seat parliamentary majority. Benny Gantz’s Blue and White, the left and Yisrael Beytenu also fall short, at 51.
The election is March 2.
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