The Likud party will hold primaries Tuesday, featuring contenders incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu, World Likud Chariman Danny Danon and the Jewish Leadership faction leader Moshe Feiglin.
Some 300 polling stations will open at 10 am Tuesday morning and close at 11 pm the same day. Although approximately 100,000 Israeli citizens are registered as members of the Likud, officials in the party estimate that voter turnout will be low.
This is thought to be due partly to the heat and the primaries' timing during summer vacation and partly to the fact that neither Danon nor Feiglin are considered a serious challenge to Opposition Leader Netanyahu's control of the party.
Netanyahu's only real rival, former foreign minister Silvan Shalom, announced several weeks ago that he would not run for chairmanship of the party, adding that the current chairman was using forceful methods to ensure his victory.
For now, the current chairman's only real worry is potential damage to his image, if Feiglin manages to garner a relatively high number of votes.
While polls suggest that Feiglin does not have the necessary support to pull off an upset in the elections, it is expected that right-wing members of the Likud party – who affiliate more with Feiglin's views - will turn out in larger numbers than their more moderate counterparts, consequently skewing the election results.
As such, Netanyahu called on his supporters to make sure to vote. "We don't want an inaccurate representation that suggests we advocate insubordination and messianic ideals," he said.