Netanyahu’s Likud Party holds primaries ahead of Israel’s general elections
The Likud Party will determine its candidate list for Israel’s upcoming elections. Israel’s governing Likud Party will hold primaries to choose candidates for the country’s upcoming crunch general election. Likud’s primaries are among the most heated and unruly events in the Israeli political calendar. The legislative election is also likely to be the most consequential for both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party, adding particular intrigue to Monday’s primaries. The right-wing party broke the Labor-left monopoly on Israeli politics when Likud leader Menachem Begin became prime minister following the 1977 general election.
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Seats in the 120-member Knesset or parliament are then allocated according to each list’s share of the vote.