(25 Nov 2012)
1. Wide of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arriving at polling station
2. Netanyahu and his wife, Sarah Netanyahu handing their identity cards to officials at polling station for registration
3. Mid of polling station officials
4. Netanyahu and his wife walking to polling booth
5. Netanyahu casting his ballot behind polling booth
6. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister:
"I am just calling on you to come and vote. Vote, influence and decide the outcome, thank you very much."
7. Mid of Netanyahu campaign posters
STORYLINE:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cast his vote in the primary elections for his Likud party in Jerusalem on Sunday.
Netanyahu's governing Likud Party is voting to choose the list of candidates that will vie for parliamentary seats in the upcoming general election.
Pro-settler candidates within the Likud are among those contending.
If they poll well, then the Likud's next parliamentary list could be tilted toward lawmakers with a strong pro-settler agenda.
More than 120,000 Likud voters are eligible to vote.
The party has teamed up for the election with the Israel Beiteinu Party of ultra-nationalist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
Its list of candidates will be chosen later.
The parliamentary elections are scheduled for January the 22nd.
Sunday's vote comes just days after a ceasefire ended more than a week of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Over eight days, Israel's aircraft carried out some 1,500 strikes on what its military described as Hamas-linked targets, while Gaza fighters fired roughly the same number of rockets at Israel.
The fighting killed 166 Palestinians, including scores of civilians, and six Israelis.
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