Israel's Likud ruling party prepares for leadership primary

Senior Likud member Gideon Saar (C) arrives at a voting station to cast his vote in the Likud party primaries for the Likud leadership, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Dec. 26, 2019. Voting in the Israeli governing Likud party's primaries began on Thursday morning as a veteran politician attempts to unseat the country's longest-serving prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Some 116,048 Likud members would vote who they want to lead the party in Israel's next elections: Netanyahu or Gideon Saar, a Likud lawmaker and the first significant challenger of Netanyahu's more than decade-long rule. (JINI via Xinhua