Israeli Elections
by Suzanne Presto

Ariel Sharon will continue to serve as Israel's Prime Minister. Israelis re-elected SharonTuesday in a general election, Israel's fourth national election in seven years.

Israelis sang and danced at Sharon's Likud Party headquarters to celebrate his landslide victory.

Closer to home, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students and others on campuses across North America and Canada, staged a mock vote to coincide with Tuesday's elections.

Students collected signatures, passed out flyers and voted on laptops outside Student Stores.

UNC-CH sophomore Dave Krusch spearheaded Carolina's participation.

"We've had a pretty good turnout. People are interested and it's an important issue," he said. "It's important to us and it should be important to a lot of people who care about democracy."

The results of the mock election are posted at www.israelvotes2003.com.