Menachem Ben-Sasson (born 1951), Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for Kadima
According to The Jerusalem Post, a Member of the Knesset, MK Marina Solodkin (Kadima) put forward a bill to "prohibit the wearing of a full-body and face covering for women.
Other persons who had been considered as possible candidates included Dalia Itzik (Kadima), Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor), Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, and Meir Shamgar.
(Note--Israeli primary polls can often be very unreliable due to poor sampling and turnout predictions. Most of the polls in the 2012 Kadima primary showed that Livni would beat Mofaz, yet Mofaz ended up winning in the end by a 62-38% margin, a whopping 24% difference. Likewise, Amir Peretz beat former Prime Minister Shimon Peres in the 2005 Labor leadership primary despite the fact that all or most of the polls predicted a solid Peres victory.)
In March 2006, three days before the 2006 Israeli legislative election, Eliyahu stated that it was forbidden to vote for any Israeli political party that had backed the disengagement, and stressed that anyone who voted for Kadima was "assisting sinners".
He participated in a number of meetings with senior Israeli politicians and activists from the Likud, Labor, and Kadima parties – advocating for a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian problem.
She was elected to the Knesset again in the 2006 elections, and as of 4 May 2006, is the Education Minister in Ehud Olmert's Kadima-led coalition government.