Passage: The defection of Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz from the right-wing Likud to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Kadima gave the Israeli premier's new party a further boost in the polls Monday. The latest survey published by the Yediot Aharonot daily found that Kadima is on course to win 41 of the 120 Knesset seats in the March 28 election, 20 more than its nearest rival, the centre-left Labour party.
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