If Knesset elections were held this month, the Labor Party would beat the Likud bloc by a margin of just over 6 percent, according to a telephone poll conducted by the Dccima Co. among 500 Israeli Jews in mid-July.
Labor would win 40.5 percent of the vote, and Likud would get 34.3 percent.
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