11.   At least a year is required to enact new electoral laws and allow new parties to be formed.

12.   Nonetheless, the convention was expected to approve a proposal under which the new party will be formed in late October and the Socialist party disbanded shortly thereafter.

13.   Several small parties have been formed ahead of the ballot.

14.   Some leaders of the UDF have said a new center-right party should be formed in its place to take a clear stand against the National Front.

15.   The Islamic Welfare party was subsequently shut down for anti-secular activities by the constitutional court, but a new party was formed.

16.   The party was formed in February.

17.   The Mapai party that ruled in the early years of statehood, from which the Labor party was later formed, was made up largely of Ashkenazi Jews.

18.   The Mapai party, from which the Labor party was later formed, governed Israel in its formative years.

19.   The party was formed with the necessary consent of Arafat three years ago.

20.   The party was formed in April last year with the support of the CEC and a union, the website said.