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Netanyahu Stays Ahead in Polls
Though surveys on Sunday predicted Labour would win 14 or 15 of the 120 seats in parliament -- almost double that previously forecast -- former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party was still the front-runner. Likud looks set to win as many as 31 seats (Source: Reuters).
Now, with Israel having declared "mission accomplished" in its three-week war on Hamas Islamists, opinion polls which once wrote off Barak's Labour party show that it has dramatically gained ground -- but apparently not enough to beat its rivals.
Though surveys on Sunday predicted centre-left Labour would win 14 or 15 of the 120 seats in parliament -- almost double that previously forecast -- former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party was still the front-runner.
