JERUSALEM, Dec. 25 -- Israel's Likud ruling party was preparing on Wednesday for a chairmanship primary on Thursday to determine who will lead it in the next election.
Some 120,000 Likud members will cast their votes on Thursday, with official results expected on Friday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is running against Gideon Saar, a Likud lawmaker and a former education minister, in one of the crucial challenges in his long political career.
Both candidates spent the day before the internal elections in energizing supporters and making logistic preparations to ensure their voters would arrive at the ballots amid unusually stormy weather that hit Israel.
The two addressed their right-wing constituency. Netanyahu announced that he will convince the White House to acknowledge Israel's sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, part of the Palestinian West Bank seized by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war. "Only I can make it," he said in video footage released on his Facebook page.
Saar pledged he will impose Israeli law on the entire settlement West Bank, a controversial move that would practically annex the disputed territory.
Local media reported that internal polls, commissioned by the candidates' headquarters, predict a landslide victory to Netanyahu. However, harsh weather conditions could deter many voters from arriving at the ballots.
Earlier in December, Saar, 53, announced that he will run against Israel's longest-serving prime minister, Netanyahu, 70.
The embattled leader is facing criminal indictments in three separate corruption scandals, in which he is charged with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. He denies any wrongdoing and says the charges are part of "a witch-hunt."
Netanyahu is currently struggling for his political survival, failing to form coalition governments after the last two national elections in Israel. However, if he wins the primary, he is likely to stay in office at least until March 2, when the next national elections will be held.
The uNPRecedented national elections will be the third time Israelis would cast their ballots in less than a year, amid political deadlock that has paralyzed the Israeli political system over the past months.
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