JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's Labor Party voted for a new leader Monday, narrowing the field to two men who have pledged to bring down Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government, preliminary results showed.
Hamas kept up rocket fire into Israel on Monday in defiance of a ceasefire call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli threats to escalate military strikes in the Gaza Strip.
Israel's options for stopping Hamas rocket fire run from bad to worse.
Israel's Labor Party voted for a new leader Monday, narrowing the field to two men who have pledged to bring down Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government, according to exit polls.
Israel's Labour party voted for a new leader on Monday in a poll bound to rattle Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition, with ex-premier Ehud Barak in a tight race with a former security chief.
Israel's army received approval Monday to broaden its ground operations against Gaza Strip militants who have been barraging Israeli border towns with deadly rocket fire, but no large-scale incursion is in the works, military officials said.
Israel's Labour was voting for a new leader Monday in a poll expected to affect Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition, with ex-premier Ehud Barak in a tight race with a former security chief.
Palestinian militants in Gaza fired six rockets into Israel on Monday, two of them crashing in the southern town of Sderot as Defence Minister Amir Peretz voted in a Labour party election.
Israel's Labour voted for a new leader Monday, with ex-premier Ehud Barak in a tight race with a former homeland security chief to head the centre-left party, in a key election for embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Ami Ayalon, one of the front-runners to head Israel's centre-left Labour party, is a political novice who has headed the Jewish state's internal security agency and navy.