"The right will not forgive" the leaders of the right-wing parties if they do not unite into a single list ahead of the March 2 elections, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu's smash win in the primaries is giving the party a shot in the arm ahead of the battle leading up to March 2.
Likud has set up 106 voting stations nationwide to serve over 115,000 registered party members. Vote to run between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. with final results on Friday. Netanyahu is likely to win, but Sa'ar is expected to prove a substantial rival.
Associates of the former justice minister say she is "ready and willing" to return to politics.
Move driven by Labor's concerns that come the March 2 vote it will fail to pass the electoral threshold. It is unclear at this time whether Blue and White is open to a merger.
The prolonged electoral crisis is taking its toll on the voters as only 59% of Israeli say they plan to vote in unprecedented third consecutive elections.
“We must not lose faith in the democratic system or in its ability to create the reality we live in with our own hands,” says President Reuven Rivlin.
The fact that politicians have opted for a third election goes far beyond the farcical. A country is paralyzed and shackled to a faulty system that no one can change.
Deadlocked Knesset fails to meet a midnight deadline to form a coalition government, triggering an unprecedented third election in a 12-month period. Blue and White co-leader Yair Lapid: “Keep your children away from the television."
Barring last-minute progress in deadlocked efforts to form a new government, the 22nd Knesset is set to automatically dissolve at midnight Wednesday, forcing Israelis to go to the polls for the third time in less than a year.
