What’s happening this coming Tuesday?
FACTBOX-Contenders to lead Israel after Feb. 10 election
* BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. Netanyahu, who threw his support behind Israel’s Gaza offensive, has maintained a narrow lead in opinion polls. Prime minister from 1996 to 1999 and leader of the opposition Likud party since Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Olmert and others defected to Kadima. Educated in the United States, he became a decorated commando. As finance minister under Sharon from 2003, Netanyahu, 59, pursued economic reforms that are credited by many for economic growth.
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