Jewish Leadership faction leader Moshe Feiglin is leading incumbent Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu by seven percentage points, according to a Likud party on-line poll two weeks before the leadership primaries.

One reason for Feiglin's 47 percent backing may be that the link to the website was e-mailed to his supporters. Netanyahu won the support of 40 percent of the participants in the poll. World Likud chairman Danny Danon won only 13 percent of the votes.

One of Netanyahu's backers said the election "will be a pointless circus" because his victory is certain.