Article 798YA Israeli block voting props up right-wing candidates

Israeli block voting props up right-wing candidates

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editors@theworld.org (Stephanie Freid)
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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.

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