Israeli Labor Party candidate Ehud Barak will get 45 percent of the vote next week to 37 percent for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a poll released Monday by Channel Two Television. In a June 1 runoff, the margin widens to 52 percent for Barak and 40 percent for Netanyahu, the poll of 2,000 Israelis found.
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