India, Oct. 27 -- Three years after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel that triggered the war in Gaza, Israeli voters head to the polls today to decide whether Benjamin Netanyahu should remain prime minister or whether the country should usher in a new era of politics.

The October 27 election is shaping up as a referendum on Netanyahu's leadership, with security, military conscription, relations with Israel's Arab minority, judicial reform and the cost of living among the key issues confronting voters.

Netanyahu's Likud party faces a challenge from the centrist Yashar party, led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, as well as other opposition parties. The race is tight: a recent Channel 12 poll projected Yashar at 23 seats and Likud at ...