After the ballot crash, Avi Maoz in a letter to his activists: "We may have been wrong"

Noam Yisrael chairman Avi Maoz sent a letter to party activists after the party failed to cross the electoral threshold and received 6,219 votes. In the letter he admitted that "we may have been wrong and given excessive weight to certain data," acknowledged the failure to translate public support into votes at the ballot box, and warned of the "Arab influx" and of a struggle over the Jewish identity of the state.

Noam Yisrael party chairman Avi Maoz sent a letter overnight (between Wednesday and Thursday) to the party's activists, after the party failed to cross the electoral threshold and received only 6,219 votes. In the letter Maoz addressed the election results for the first time and the gap versus early expectations. Maoz admitted the party's absolute surprise: "We woke up this morning to the data of truth and were very surprised at the sight of the results of truth against the forecasts we presented and the expectations we developed in light of them." According to him, "we still have no answers to all the right questions you ask us, and we are now in deep thinking to understand what and where our mistakes were." He admitted the failure to translate public support into votes at the ballot box: "We did not succeed in translating the public's sympathy for Noam Yisrael's messages into actual voting. People supported us but did not vote for us – that is a fact." He further wrote that "as great as the expectation, so great is the disappointment." Referring to the polls the party published, Maoz claimed that "the polls we received and published matched the sympathy of the hundreds of thousands we met, and it is clear to us that they were reliable at the time." According to him, the intensity of the attacks against the party and the pressures from the heads of the right-wing bloc to secede strengthened the assessment that the strengthening data in its hands were correct. Alongside this he rejected claims of harm to the bloc's integrity: "Our assessment of reality that the right does not have 61 seats and that there is no equality because the Arabs will be very strong and will prevent a decision – was proven correct. The right is in a deep crisis, far beyond the four seats we expected to bring." Maoz admitted that "we may have been wrong and given excessive weight to certain data over others," and sought to encourage his activists: "Raise your heads, straighten your posture, we succeeded enormously in raising to consciousness the issue of the Jewish identity of the State of Israel." In conclusion he warned that "the Arab influx is a bright red light for all of us," and added that the party will deepen its soul-searching and internal audit.