Benjamin Netanyahu appeals for voters to 'come home' ahead of Israel election Hillel Horowitz, a rabbi in the hardline Jewish settlement community in Hebron, said it would push for the re-establishment of settlements evacuated in 2005 under the then prime minister, Ariel Sharon. "We will do everything we can to work to return the people of Israel to Homesh in northern Samaria [in the West Bank] and to Gush Katif [a former Gaza settlement bloc]," an Israeli website, Kipa, quoted Mr Horowitz as telling a meeting. We will take action to bring about Israel's annexation of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank]. Mr Horowitz, who is 13th on his party's candidates' list, is expected to be elected to the Knesset, with opinion polls showing Jewish Home on course for up to 15 seats. His comments drew accusations of extremism and undermined Mr Bennett's attempts to portray his party as a mainstream grouping interested in bread-and-butter issues rather than radical stances. "There are not 15 Bennetts," said Yoel Hasson, a parliamentarian in the centrist Hatnua party, led by the former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni. Behind Bennett's charismatic smile, there is an extremist, delusional gang who will bring about their share of extremist acts that will harm our democracy. Anyone who votes Bennett who is not a Right-wing extremist should know who they are voting for.  The controversy followed calls for the disqualification of another candidate, Jeremy Gimpel, over a 2011 speech to Christian Zionists which apparently advocated the destruction of the Dome of the Rock, a Jerusalem landmark and one of Islam's holiest shrines. Mr Bennett, the surprise star of the campaign, is seeking to join a coalition expected to be headed by Mr Netanyahu, whom he once served as chief-of-staff. Opinion polls have projected the prime minister's Likud Beiteinu bloc to win between 32 and 35 seats, down from 42 at present and an outcome that could weaken Mr Netanyahu. Although the two men have a strained past, a Jewish Home election poster depicted them side-by-side under the slogan "Strong Together" in an advertisement intended to show that Mr Bennett's party could strengthen a Mr Netanyahu-led government. The posters earned the party a £12,000 fine from the Israeli Election Committee after the prime minister's Likud party complained that they confused voters. The Arab League has called on Arab-Israeli voters to participate en masse to block the rise of the Right-wing. "We are facing the start of an Israeli policy of persecution and ethnic cleansing, so there is a need for mobilisation and mass voting to strengthen the Arab force in the Israeli Knesset," it said. Despite comprising around one-fifth of the population, Arab turnout in Israeli elections is historically low, with only 53 per cent voting in the 2009 poll.