1.   It is expected to pass easily with the support of the opposition Labor and other dovish parties.

2.   And Ephraim Sneh, a former general and member of the dovish Labor party abstained.

3.   And Ephraim Sneh, a former general and member of the dovish Labor party said after viewing the maps that he would abstain.

4.   Bishara, head of the National Arab Alliance, is drawing his support mainly from Israeli Arab voters who have traditionally supported the dovish Labor party.

5.   Barak asked Meretz, another dovish party committed to secular rights, to reconsider its opposition to entering a government with Shas.

6.   City council members from the dovish Meretz party petitioned a local court Monday morning in an effort to prevent the demolitions.

7.   Communications Minister Shulamit Aloni, head of the dovish Meretz party, said troops should remain only around the six settler enclaves in the town.

8.   Dovish party that advocates civil liberties, separation of religion and state, and the creation of an Israeli constitution and a Palestinian state.

9.   He said he would let party members decide whether to join a coalition government led by Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak of the dovish Labor party.

10.   He understood, however, that a dovish Israeli party would do so on their behalf.