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Sharon's Party Is Winner In Israel
A Jewish settler in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, lets his daughter cast his ballot in the Israeli general elections.
(By Oded Balilty -- Associated Press)
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Among those that benefited from the drift was the new Pensioners Party, led by Rafi Eitan, a former Mossad agent. But with his strong showing, Lieberman will likely challenge Netanyahu for the position of opposition leader in the next Knesset. The Arab bloc won 10 seats.
In the Israeli city of Bet Shemesh, more than a dozen activists from Labor, Likud, Shas and other parties swarmed voters at a polling station inside a community gymnasium.
Eliyahu Ben-Lulu, 51, said he voted for Shas because he is "a believing Jew." In some previous elections, Ben-Lulu was able to vote for a Likud prime minister and Shas members of parliament. But in this election, and the last one, voters were allowed to select only a single party list.
"I saw no other possibility," said Ben-Lulu, who used to work in a factory making munitions for Israeli military aircraft. "If I have to choose between a political and a religious way, I always choose my belief."
Taxis plastered with Kadima posters sped through the streets near the polling station.
"Olmert will continue the way of Sharon," said Mordechai Edri, 38, a gardener in Bet Shemesh who voted for Likud in the last election and Kadima in this one. "I didn't like the games Netanyahu played during the disengagement from Gaza -- supporting Sharon, opposing Sharon. And economically he went too far to the right."
Researcher Samuel Sockol and special correspondent Hillary Claussen contributed to this report.
