Jerusalem ? Benjamin Netanyahu swept the race to lead Israel’s hardline Likud Party, a party official said, boosting his ambitions to reclaim the country’s premiership.

Netanyahu, crowned in recent polls as the front-runner for Israel’s top job, faced off against far-right West Bank settler Moshe Feiglin, who would bar Arabs from Israel’s parliament and favors their emigration.

A partial tally gave Netanyahu 73 percent of the vote to Feiglin’s 22 percent, party executive director Gad Arieli said. World Likud Party Chairman Danny Danon trailed with 4 percent.