Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launches the Likud-Beiteinu joint campaign on Dec. 25 in Jerusalem. Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party has joined forces with former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party for this year's election.
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (right), head of the left-wing Hatnuah party, speaks with women during a campaign event at the Ayalon Mall in Ramat Gan on Jan. 17.
Haneen Zoabi, of the mostly Israeli Arab Balad party, delivers a campaign speech during an electoral meeting at Haifa University on Jan. 14.
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, head of the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party, reads scripture at the Cave of the Patriarchs/Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron on Jan. 14.
Naftali Bennett, head of the right-wing Habayit Hayehudi, or "Jewish Home" party, speaks at the House of the Druze Community on Jan. 2 during a campaign rally in the Druze village of Julis.
Netanyahu and Lieberman supporters hold up signs during the launch of the Likud-Beiteinu campaign on Dec. 25 in Jerusalem.
Supporters of Israeli Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich wave flags during a campaign rally on Jan. 17 in Tel Aviv.
Hatnuah party head Tzipi Livni plays basketball during a campaign tour on Dec. 19 near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Gvaot.
Election campaign posters of Israeli Arab candidates are seen in the northern city of Nazareth on Jan. 14. Israeli Arabs, descendants of the 160,000 Palestinians who stayed on after the creation of Israel in 1948, make up 20 percent of the Israeli population.
Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich meets with potential voters at the outdoor Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on Jan. 16.
The founder of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party, Aryeh Deri, addresses the crowd during the annual pilgrimage to the grave of Rabbi Baba Sali in the town of Netivot on Jan. 14. Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar (bottom, center) and the son of Rabbi Baba Sali, Rabbi Baruch Abu Chatzira (bottom, right), listen on.
Supporters of the main Israeli Arab political parties arrive in the southern town of Rahat in the Negev desert for a rally on Jan. 18.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls up potential voters in Tel Aviv on Jan. 17.
Rabbi Haim Amsalem, a Knesset member and founder of the Am Shalem party, addresses students at Sapir College in the southern city of Sderot on Jan. 17.
Habayit Hayehudi head Naftali Bennett gives a radio interview over the phone on Dec. 26 in Tel Aviv.
An Israeli electoral worker arranges ballot boxes at the Israeli Elections Committee headquarters on Jan. 8 in Shoham.
