Israeli Foreign Minister and leader of the Kadima party Tzipi Livni attends a campaign rally in Kfar Saba, near Tel Aviv, on February 4, 2009. Hawkish former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears well placed to head next Israel’s government but the surge of a far right-wing party has stirred unease within his conservative Likud. An opinion poll out on February 4 showed Likud winning 27 of the 120 mandates in the Knesset, four more than Kadima, the ruling party of Netanyahu’s main rival Livni. By Yoav Lemmer/AFP/Getty Images.
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