- Title: JERUSALEM: Israel's right-wing Likud leads opinion polls
- Date: 18th January 2013
- Summary: JERUSALEM (JANUARY 18, 2013) (REUTERS) ENTRANCE TO CAFE IN JERUSALEM RESIDENTS INSIDE CAFE TILT DOWN TO SHOW NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPER HEADLINE READS IN HEBREW: 'FINAL POLL BEFORE ELECTION SHOWS RIGHT-WING BLOC'S MAJORITY SLASHED' MAN READING PAPER ZOOM IN TO SHOW CANDIDATES (SOUNDBITE) (English) MENACHEM BINKER, SITTING AT A CAFE IN JERUSALEM SAYING: "This election is more or less like the last elections, the results are very similar. The persons are different but the trend, the tendencies are very much the same." MAN AND WOMAN SITTING ON CAFE NEWSPAPER SHOWING ELECTION POLL RESULTS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ELI KAJDAN, JERUSALEM RESIDENT, SAYING: "It's somewhat of a boring election this time around. We've got 34 parties which is not unusual for Israel. In America it's much easier, you've got two. Out of these 34 parties the difference between them is so very small, and I think many people that I know still four days before elections don't know who exactly they are going to vote for." MAN PICKING UP BABY PEDESTRIANS IN STREET (SOUNDBITE) (English) CLAUDE STUCHINSKI, JERUSALEM RESIDENT, SAYING: "The right will win and for me it will be a tragedy for Israel." CARS DRIVING VARIOUS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR DAN AVON, FROM HEBREW UNIVERSITY, READING BOOK (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROFESSOR DAN AVON, HEBREW UNIVERSITY, SAYING: "Recent polls show a relative stability within what is called the centre of Israeli electorate with a slight shift from the right towards the centre. The big question that the polls do not reveal is how many of the Israeli electorate will not show up at the polls?" DAN AVON SEATED FOR INTERVIEW (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROFESSOR DAN AVON, HEBREW UNIVERSITY, SAYING: "Since the assumption that his party will be the majority one or the largest one, and he will be asked to set up the coalition, then the individual voters are figuring OK who will be with him in the coalition pulling in my direction. So, votes are going right of Netanyahu in order to make him tougher on issues of national security and the Palestinian negotiations and votes are going towards the centre in order to pull him more towards social and economic issues and his government less neo-Liberal." MORE OF PROFESSOR SEATED AT INTERVIEW
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- Location: Jerusalem
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- Country: Israel
- Topics: Politics
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