The election, the second of this kind in five months, is essentially between the current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli army chief Benny Gantz. Israel's longest-ever serving PM leads the right-wing Likud Party but the election comes at a time when he's facing possible corruption charges. That's something Gantz, head of the centrist Blue & White Party, is trying to play on. One of the main election battle-grounds is, of course, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with both sides looking to woo more voters with innovative policies. Netanyahu announced controversial plans to annex the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, where the Palestinians seek statehood. Gantz said his party would look to strengthen Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank, with the Jordan Valley being Israel's "eastern security border."