The Yashar Party, led by Gadi Eisenkot, overtook Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party by a small margin in a poll released on Wednesday by Channel 13.
These results represent the first in which Likud fell below Eisenkot's Yashar in a poll, following weeks of a tie between the two parties.
Nearly half of respondents said that Eisenkot was more suitable for the position of prime minister than Netanyahu.
According to Channel 13, if elections were held on July 8, Eisenkot's party would earn 23 mandates, Likud would get 22, and Naftali Bennett's Together Party would be the third largest with 15 seats - two less than the previous poll.
The Democrats Party, under the leadership of Yair Golan, and Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu both won 10 seats each, followed by Shas, United Torah Judaism, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit, each with eight.
After that, Hadash-Ta'al received six mandates, and Ra'am and Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionist Party each got five seats.
Chili Tropper and Yoaz Hendel's new alliance did not pass the threshold; neither did Benny Gantz's Blue and White party or Balad.
What do voters think about the new laws regarding the ultra-Orthodox population?
When polled, 56% of the public opposed the bill that would prevent the arrest of young haredi men who did not report for IDF enlistment, compared with only 29% who support the law and 15% who answered that they do not know.
Among coalition voters, 68% support the law, compared with 21% who oppose it and 11% who answered that they do not know.
Asked whether the passage of the laws that the prime minister agreed upon with the haredi parties would affect their vote in the next elections, 53% of respondents said they have already decided whom they will vote for and that it will not affect their vote.
However, 20% said it will definitely affect their vote, while 17% said it may affect their vote, and 9% said they do not know.
The poll was conducted by Hamadad (Shmuel Rosner, Noah Slepkov), in cooperation with the Sample Project (Dr. Ariel Ayalon), Askaria (Dudi Dror), and Statnet (Yosef Makladeh).