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The White House says President Obama will be calling Mr Netanyahu to congratulate him but it also accused Likud of using anti-Arab rhetoric during the campaign.

Yitzhak Herzog: The co-leader of the centre-left Zionist Union electoral alliance, Mr Herzog has accused Likud of depressing Israeli living standards and campaigned against Mr Netanyahu's foreign policy.

Lieberman's ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party is allied with the right-wing Likud of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who kept open the foreign ministry portfolio for him while the trial was under way.

Meridor's concern is understandable, because the Likud of today has very little in common with the Likud that Begin formed in 1977 by merging the revisionist Herut with the Liberal party.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's center-right government, formed in March, consists of four parties in addition to his own Likud of which one, Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) certainly does not believe in making peace with the Palestinians on the basis of a two-state solution.

The polls forecast a resurgence of the Likud and of the rightist bloc in Parliament, and a collapse of Labor and the left.

An attempt by Sharon to win the leadership of the Likud ahead of the May 1977 election was unsuccessful, and he formed a small party of his own, Shlomzion ("Peace in Zion").

Netanyahu — so Kadima is challenging him — must try to drag the whole of the Likud to the party of America, even if this means his losing absolute control over the cabinet.

This caused Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin, the self-styled conscience of the Likud, to issue a condemnation of his own — namely, of the Tel Aviv University audience.

On May 19th, 23 of the 40 Likud members of parliament signed on to an anti-road-map lobby run by the settlers.

An opinion poll hastily conducted at Mr Mordechai's insistence showed that he stands a better chance of beating Mr Netanyahu than any of the other three: Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, a former army chief of staff; Dan Meridor, a former Likud minister of finance; and Ronni Milo, a former Likud mayor of Tel Aviv.