Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu expressed confidence about the outcome of Tuesday's elections, saying Israelis "want change" and urging those seeking a "new" direction to vote for his hardline Likud party, dpa reported.
"A very good feeling," he told reporters, when asked how he felt, as he cast his ballot in his Jerusalem neighbourhood.
"The people want change and will opt for that today," he said. "Whoever wants a new path, should concentrate it around the Likud and me," said the 59-year-old former premier, who has been leading in the opinion polls but is running a close race with the ruling centrist Kadima party of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.