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Limor Livnat, a Likud official with ambitions of her own, said confidently: "Whoever heads the Likud will be the next prime minister of Israel.

The Zionist party led by Avigdor Lieberman is one of a cluster of small parties that may not receive enough votes to pass the new 3.25 percent threshold to enter the Knesset following Tuesday's vote, and the prime minister seems to hope that a last-minute swing of its supporters towards Likud will be enough to close the gap.

BINYAMIN NETANYAHU, Israel's prime minister since 2009 (and before that, from 1996 to 1999), has called elections for January 2013, confident that his Likud party will be elected for another term.

If that happened, he said to loud boos, "the government of Israel, under Likud leadership, will be prepared to do its part to make possible the establishment of an independent Palestinian state" with provisional borders.

But that schedule means that if Mr. Sharon wins the Likud primary, he will be faced with the road map at least a month before elections.

But today, with the political landscape transformed, the Likud Party hopes he will be the next prime minister.

The winner of the party primary will be the Likud candidate for prime minister in national elections that have been set for Jan . 28

On the subject of settlements, Netanyahu vowed: "As long as the Likud is in power, there will be no concessions or withdrawals [from the occupied territories]." And returning to one of his key themes in the media blitz he has launched in recent days, Netanyahu once again accused a conspiracy of foreign governments and Israel's leftwing of plotting to bring him down.

I think more Arabs will vote in this election compared to previous years as a result of the union of parties representing them, but I think the right-wing will win with less votes for the Likud party and the opposition will be stronger.

Because if Likud wins, writes Meir, Mahmoud Ahmadenijad will be happy.

That's because no majority in this Knesset will be formed without Likud: the far left will never climb into bed with the far right.