The field of candidates for Israeli prime minister narrowed to two Sunday after Center Party leader Yitzhak Mordechai and right-wing candidate Ze’ev “Benny” Begin dropped out of the running. On Saturday night, Israel’s first Arab candidate for prime minister, Azmi Beshara, dropped out of the running. A poll released Sunday said Labor Party candidate Ehud Barak will receive 55 percent of Monday’s vote, to 44.5 percent for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The poll, which asked 1,000 Israelis which of the two candidates they would vote for, had a 3 percent margin of error.
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