He might be the next Prime-Minister of Israel, if, on the 28-th of March, the electorate decides that his offer is more interesting. Amir Peretz, the leader of the Labour Party leader, doesn""t have a military career, but he""s ambitious and succeeded in all he intented to do. Now he wants all or nothing: the Power. "Israel needs a Constitution"

Marina Constantinoiu He might be the next Prime-Minister of Israel, if, on the 28-th of March, the electorate decides that his offer is more interesting. Amir Peretz, the leader of the Labour Party leader, doesn""t have a military career, but he""s ambitious and succeeded in all he intented to do. Now he wants all or nothing: the Power.

The election campaign is orchestrated by a professional team, with American Stanley Greenberg as co-ordinator. Greenberg is well-known to the Romanian public as a result of his involvement in the Social Democratic Party (member of the Socialist International, as the Israeli Labour Party) and Adrian Nastase""s election campaign. Greenberg succeeded in making Bill Clinton President, worked for Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela and Gerhard Schroder, but also for the Israeli Labour leader Ehud Barak, who came into power in 1999. Now he works for Peretz. Were Amir Peretz to win the election and form a government, he would become the first non- Ashkenazi Prime Minister in Israel""s history.

Less than a month till the elections. Not much, in order to communicate his message. That""s why Peretz wanders across the country from North to South, talks to people, shakes hands, is, from dusk till down, in a round the clock campaign. That""s how I "caught" him: he was visiting the company that an Israeli of Romanian descent - Bruno Landesberg - has built, as one of the pioneers of the Israeli industry. Few teams of journalists followed his act, as they""re doing on a daily basis, in the newsp