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Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu desperately want to win over Ron Gadish. An executive at a high-tech firm in the coastal city of Herzliya, Gadish still hasn't made up his mind whom to vote for in two weeks. He views Peres, the incumbent, as visionary but perhaps too...
The role of those in the middle--perhaps 6% to 7% of the electorate--has not previously had the same importance because this is the first time Israel will directly elect its Prime Minister. The makeup of the undecided group reflects every class and ethnicity, but Gadish's ambivalence is...
The balloting comes at a moment when the country must decide, in effect, how much it can risk on peace. To go with the imaginative Peres, many voters believe, means continuing the Arab-Israeli peace process at its current revolutionary pace, chancing that Israel will make concessions that may later...
The election did not always seem so tight. Late last fall, with Israel plagued by Palestinian terror attacks, polls showed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and of the center-left Labor Party running behind Netanyahu of the nationalistic Likud. When Rabin was murdered in November by a right-wing assassin trying...
The resulting campaign has been exceptionally personal, focusing on the very character traits that so concern the undecideds. Peres has followed what Americans might call a Rose Garden strategy, emphasizing his official duties as Prime Minister rather than electioneering. He underscored his world status last month during a high-profile...