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The final opinion polls – released on Friday ahead of a four-day moratorium on publishing surveys of voter intentions – put the centre-left Zionist Union, headed by opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog and former peace negotiator Tzipi Livni, ahead with 25 to 26 seats, and Netanyahu's Likud taking 20 to 22 in the 120-seat Knesset.

Netanyahu's Likud party has been lagging in opinion polls, and he has stepped up his nationalist rhetoric in the final days of the campaign.

"The choice is symbolic: the Likud led by me, that will continue to stand firmly for [Israel's] vital interests, compared with a leftwing government... ready to accept any dictate," he told residents.

Among them was usually right-leaning Ben-Dror Yemini, writing in the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, who noted that Netanyahu has spoken not at a Likud rally but at one representing largely settler and national religious interests.

Palestinian leaders said a fourth term for the Likud party leader meant they must press forward with unilateral steps towards independence, including filing charges against Israel at the international criminal court.

Mr Netanyahu cast his opponents' advisers, who had worked for Barack Obama, as part of a plot by the American president to oust him in revenge for his refusal to toe the line in nuclear talks with Iran even though American strategists were hired by Israeli parties of all stripes, including his own Likud.

If there were no agreement at Camp David, his aides hint that he would invite the Likud leader, Ariel Sharon, to join him in a government of national unity and jointly face the prospect of violent confrontation with the Palestinians.

In fact, the directive is a result of pressure exerted on Moshe Yaalon, the defence minister, by Israeli settlers who say they are being "harassed" by Palestinians on the buses.The bus plan was roundly criticised by opposition figures and even by some within the ruling party, Likud.

He is a former politician in Mr Sharon's Likud party, and certainly not hostile to him.

Another Yediot poll showed that if he formed a party, it would win eight seats—at the expense less of Mr Lieberman, his fellow Russian émigré, than of the Likud, the traditional party of the poor.

In the diary I spelled out in full the stubborn opposition from former prime minister Julia Gillard, who had a member of her staff seemingly engaged full time in appeasing the Likud-aligned pro-Israel lobby.