* Uri Elitzur, a former top aide to then-Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, is the latest to call for a rotating Likud party leadership, leading off with Sharon as Prime Minister and Netanyahu as Foreign Minister, followed by an exchange of positions after two years. Elitzur said that continued bickering between the two only serves interests of the left-wing...

* Jerusalem Mayor and former MK Ehud Olmert said today that he is running for a slot on the Likud Knesset list. He will have to resign as Mayor of Jerusalem, paving the way for his deputy, United Torah Judaism's Uri Lopoliansky, to take over. Lopoliansky said today that accusations that he would overturn public life in the city to have it conform to Halakhic [Jewish legal] standards are untrue and are merely political scare-tactics...

* Former Finance Minister Dan Meridor (Center) is on his way either to anti-hareidi Shinui or back to the Likud...

* MK Nechama Ronen (Center) announced that she was joining the Likud...

* MK Chaim Katz said he was leaving the two-man Am Echad faction headed by Amir Peretz. He has not yet decided which party to join...

* Meretz MK Anat Maor said she would not seek re-election to the Knesset...

* Political analyst and former Israeli consul in the U.S. Yoram Ettinger announced his intention to run for a place on the Likud list of Knesset candidates...