**Sharp criticism is being heard from the chareidi community over the major chilul Shabbos by the leaders of the major political parties who moved from one election event to another.

**Forecasters predict Tuesday, Election Day, will be a stormy day accompanied by badly needed rain.

**Meretz leader Chaim Oron believes Kadima may break apart following the elections, explaining Livni will not succeed in maintaining the loyalty of her party colleagues.

**Some polling stations in military bases will begin operating today, Sunday. Most soldiers however will vote on Tuesday, Election Day, in one of 720 polling stations in IDF installations.

**183,000 votes in the last election were trashed as the parties did not pass the minimum threshold to enter Knesset.

**In a Sunday morning tree planting in the Golan Heights ahead of Tu B’Shvat, Binyamin Netanyahu stated “I am planting for the future so Gamle will not fall again.” He added that a government headed by him will never leave the Golan Heights.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)