Election 5769

Israeli voters are choosing a new premier. Their two main choices are a former female spy for Mossad and a former general and two-time prime minister. They are running for the chance to be bounced from power on corruption charges like outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Despite the bad weather, election returns were running at 60 percent, which lagged slightly behind the 63.2 percent in the 2006 election. Security and the recent kerfuffle with Hamas are top issues in what has turned out to be a tighter race than expected. Palestinians were banned from Israel for the duration. Whomever wins the election, it is expected that no one party will have enough seats to run the Knesset themselves which will mean a coalition government is in the offing. Stay tuned.