Take 3: The main actors in Israel's re-do contested election.
News headlines today: Feb. 28, 2020JERUSALEM -- Israelis head to the polls for the third time in less than a year on Monday, after the two previous parliamentary races ended inconclusively.
Its election campaign has focused heavily on Netanyahu's leadership and close relationships with world leaders, most importantly President. Since the White House unveiled its Mideast plan last month, Netanyahu has made the proposal a key plank in his platform. The party's leaders — which include the former army commander Gantz, an ex-TV host and two other retired military chiefs — have focused their campaign on Netanyahu's legal woes and questioned his character.
Even further to the right, Jewish Power, a small ultranationalist party, is not projected to garner enough support to enter the Knesset, but has earned significant attention. It could strip votes away from Likud and Yamina. Under its veteran leader Amir Peretz, Labor united with the smaller, centrist Gesher party in the run-up to September's vote. After new elections were called, Labor-Gesher then merged with the liberal Meretz party in a bid to build a larger left-wing bloc.Israel's Arab parties, which represent the country's 20% minority, are running on a single Joint List ticket after the feuding factions mended fences last summer and surged to 13 seats in parliament.
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