Israeli citizens are turning out in relatively high numbers to vote for a new parliament, with opposition leader and former premier Benjamin Netanyahu hoping for a return to power. Turnout at noon (1000 GMT) on Tuesday was the highest since 1999, at 28.4%, according to the Central Election Committee. This is three percentage points more than at the same point during the last parliamentary election in March last year. It is the fifth Knesset election in just three and a half years. Polls indicate that Netanyahu’s party, the conservative Likud, could once again become the largest party. It remai…