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...frontrunner in Kadima, according to the latest Haaretz-Channel 10 polls, is Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni with 47% of the party vote. Her nearest rival, the more hawkish Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz has only 28% according to the poll. (To win the party leadership in the first-round primary, the top candidate must win at least 40% of the vote...
...Iranian-born Mofaz, 60, is selling himself to Kadima voters as a longtime soldier ever-vigilant against Israel's enemies in the region. Mofaz distinguished himself through battlefield bravery as a corporal and then rose through the ranks to become army chief of staff and, later, Defense Minister. Officers who served with Mofaz praise his diligence, but say he lacks vision and flexibility...
...Olmert earlier vowed to resign if he is indicted, and already his centrist Kadima party is preparing to replace him. A leadership battle is now underway within the party between Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz. Livni, who appears to have the edge, is campaigning on her clean record in contrast to Olmert's backroom politicking, while Mofaz, a former defense minister, is playing up his security credentials...
...Party and held together by the forceful personality of Ariel Sharon - who remains in a coma more than two years after suffering a stroke. Olmert's successor as party leader could be the more dovish Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni or the hawkish Transportation Minister and former army chief Shaul Mofaz. Nor is it clear that whoever Kadima chooses will automatically assume the reins of government; the coalition that kept Olmert in power could break apart. Right now many polls show that a new election could just as easily return the even more hawkish Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu to power. (Both...
...securing the remains of its soldiers fallen in foreign battles. And calls for a prisoner swap have turned into a charged and emotive public issue in Israel - with general elections just around the corner, few cabinet ministers were willing to go against the popular tide. As Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz, who is in favor of a prisoner swap, said today: "We have an opportunity to put an end to this sad, painful story.... If Israel does not look out for its sons, its sons will not look...