There are candidates - but there are really no elections: Jerusalem goes to the polls - voila! news. Despite the lack of interest, the elections may determine world order in the most complicated city in the world.

Mayor Moshe Leon receives public support alongside painful losses in the High Court, his opponent Yossi Havilio holds the "secular ticket" and the rest are fighting for a place in the council. Until before Black Sabbath, in "liberal" areas of the city it was customary to divide the secular voters in Jerusalem almost equally with the ultra-Orthodox.