Israeli block voting props up right-wing candidates
by editors@theworld.org (Stephanie Freid) from The World: Latest Stories on (#798YA)
A fact of electoral life in Israel is that certain groups of people will always vote a certain way: how their leader or rabbi "advises" them to vote. This is how politicians, like Israel's current ultra-right-wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, can keep his job. In his case, he's supported by a certain faction of settlers. Ultra-orthodox parties whose population reaches voting age far more than any other, also have a lock on a certain group of voters. Stephanie Freid reports.