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CAMPAIGN ISSUES:
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What are the main Issues of the campaign?
Peace and Security
- Who can and how to crush terrorism?
- The terms of peacemaking with the Palestinians. Major issues: how much territory should be relinquished, what form the Palestinian entity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip should take, and what Israel should demand from the Palestinians in return for concessions.
- Jerusalem: How to ensure that the city remains in Israeli hands. Most of the parties maintain that Jerusalem is the undivided capital of the State of Israel, under full Israeli sovereignty.
- The price Israel should be willing to pay for peace with Syria: Can Israel withdraw from part or all of the Golan Heights?
Religion and State
- Whither the religious status quo?
- Can religion be separated from politics?
Economic and social issues
- Privatization: How fast and under what conditions?
- Keeping down the rate of inflation versus encouraging economic growth and reducing unemployment, interest and tax rates, and the size of the budgetary deficit.
- Priorities in government spending: How much money to house young couples and new immigrants, how much for Jewish settlements in the territories, religious establishments, health, education, welfare, infrastructure, culture, etc.?
Sectorial issues
The growing number of sectoral, ethnic, and single-issue parties will ensure that issues such as the rights of immigrants, the Arab citizens of Israel, various ethnic groups, women and workers, and environmental and regional interests will be raised, and will also be addressed by the larger, multi-issue parties.
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