Prime Minister Ariel Sharon voted this morning in Beit HaKerem, Jerusalem, after which he expressed his wish that the next elections would take place on time, in late August 2007. Labor Party head Amram Mitzna voted in Haifa, and said that if he doesn't win today, "I'll win next time." Meretz leader Yossi Sarid cast his ballot in Tel Aviv, Avigdor Lieberman of the National Union in his home in the Yesha community Nokdim, and Effie Eitam in Nov in the Golan Heights. Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef voted in Har Nof, Jerusalem.



Cost of the elections: 500 million shekels ($104 million) in direct costs charged to the government, and another million shekels in indirect losses due to the vacation day.