'This Is Unbelievably Complicated': For Israeli voters, new election not as simple as pregnant chads and dimples.

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: December 15, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

`This Is Unbelievably Complicated': For Israeli voters, new election not as simple as pregnant chads and dimples.

MICHELE CHABIN

ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

Jerusalem -- Jane Labovitz Schwebel sat in her apartment in Gilo Tuesday night and watched the live television coverage of the Likud central committee meeting, in which both Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon campaigned for the right to be the party's nominee for prime minister early next year.

In the distance, snipers in the nearby Palestinian village of Beit Jala resumed shooting into Gilo, a neighborhood of 40,000 in southeastern Jerusalem ...

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