News - Middle East: A new opinion poll shows that support for Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party has plummeted to a low it has not been seen in 17 years, and it would lose more than a third of its parliamentary seats if an election were held now.

The Channel 13 poll, published on Monday, indicated that Likud party would win 20 seats in the regime's 120-member parliament, down from the 32 seats it won last November, and his coalition would fail to gain a majority, with 46 seats, down from 64.

According to the poll, the center-right National Union party of former minister of military affairs, Benny Gantz, would become the largest in the Knesset, receiving a whopping 29 seats, more than double the 12 it holds currently.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid’s centrist Yesh Atid party would receive 21 seats, dropping from the 24 it currently controls, which would push Likud into becoming just the third-largest party in the Knesset.