Behind the Scenes of the Elections: The Mechanism That Will Run Everything

A week before the elections for the 26th Knesset, four polling station workers share their sense of mission and the challenges of the role. Avi Yechzkeli, a polling station secretary from Jerusalem, emphasizes that the purity of the elections is the most important thing. Yuri Silvitsky from Rishon LeZion will serve this year for the first time as an election integrity supervisor.

A week before the elections for the 26th Knesset, the article brings the voices of four polling station workers who describe their sense of mission and the challenges of the role. Avi Yechzkeli (46) from Jerusalem, who has worked as a polling station secretary since 2001, says he does it from the heart and not for the money, and that the citizen's trust in the democratic system is measured in the moments of voting at the polling station. Yuri Silvitsky (47) from Rishon LeZion, who has worked in the role for 20 years, will serve this year for the first time as an election integrity supervisor, responsible for identifying irregularities and documenting the vote count. Both emphasize the importance of the proper procedure and the sense of mission in working on election day.