Israeli Elections
“I’m hoping that people get out to there and vote, the numbers are not looking in our favor,” said Rachel Broyde, the head of Anglo campaign for the Likud Party.
Sources in Benny Gantz’s party welcome a decision by Israel’s Central Elections Committee to count ballots that had been vandalized; accuses Netanyahu of trying to manipulate elections.
Although the voting results cannot be publicized until 10 p.m. local time, pollsters did tell the press that exit polls reveal low turnout in Israeli-Arab neighborhoods.
The official results of the polls will be published on Thursday evening or Friday morning, but about 90 percent the results are expected to be tallied as early as Wednesday afternoon.
“The erroneous caption—whether it stems from ignorance, negligence, hostility, bias or a combination of factors—is just the latest testament to the paper’s woefully unreliable coverage of Israel,” said CAMERA Israel office director Sternthal.
Despite an expected close race, voter turnout mid-afternoon on election day was at 35.8 percent, slightly lower than the last national election in 2015 at the same time at 36.6 percent.
Likud attorney Koby Matza said the devices were visible and put in place in areas “where there is a significant concern about fraud.”
“Candidates by nature bring with them propaganda, and the ban on interviewing is essential for maintaining the principle of equality,” said Central Elections Committee head Justice Hanan Melcer.
The final 24 hours of campaigning see a blitz of interviews, stops and impromptu stump speeches ahead of an election that’s up for grabs.
Twitter has suspended dozens of Hebrew-language accounts operated by the Church of Almighty God—a Christian group banned in China that believes Jesus has been reincarnated as a Chinese female now residing in Queens, N.Y.—ahead of Tuesday’s Israeli elections.
The goal was to offer information, allowing participants to ask questions about the Israeli government and the conflicts inside Israeli society.
The Arab world reacted with anger to the Israeli premier’s remarks in an interview with Channel 12 News, in which he said he would not rule out the possibility of annexing Judea and Samaria in the future.
