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Israel braced for nail-biter

February 26, 2015 12:35
Jewish Home supporters celebrate in January 2013

By

Anshel Pfeffer,

Anshel Pfeffer

1 min read

With less than three weeks of campaigning left before the election and polls showing the two main parties neck-and-neck, both sides are still looking for a key issue that will shift large numbers of voters.

A series of revelations regarding the use of public funds by the Netanyahu family do not appear to have made much of a dent in Likud's prospects.

The centre-left parties now believe that a new state-comptroller report on years of failed housing policies could focus the blame for rising house prices on the PM.

Likud is pinning its hopes on Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the US Congress next week, where he will warn of the dangers of an impending nuclear agreement with Iran.