Bereaved families' forum seeks Shin Bet probe into alleged Ra'am voter-tracking app

The Choosing Life Forum, representing bereaved families and terror victims, filed a complaint with Shin Bet chief David Zini demanding an investigation into an app called Aswatcom, which it alleges was used by senior Ra'am activists to monitor voter turnout in real time during the 2026 election. The forum claims the app was created on September 15 and had over 500 downloads on Google Play, and that developers in Ramallah with ties to the Palestinian Authority were involved.

The Choosing Life Forum, which represents bereaved families and victims of terrorism, filed a complaint with Shin Bet chief David Zini demanding an investigation into an application it alleged was used by senior Ra'am activists to monitor voter turnout during the 2026 election. The application, called Aswatcom, allegedly enabled activists to track voter participation in real time at individual polling stations and manage the party's election-day operations, the forum said in its complaint. According to the forum, the application was created on September 15, about six weeks before the October 27 election, and recorded more than 500 downloads on Google Play. The forum also claimed that developers based in Ramallah with ties to the Palestinian Authority were involved in creating the system, raising concerns that they may have accessed information about Israeli voters. The forum demanded that Zini open a criminal investigation, seize and preserve the app's servers, databases, and activity logs, investigate the entities that commissioned, funded, and developed it, and trace the activists who used it on Election Day. The forum also demanded a review into whether Ra'am activists operated the system from within polling stations, which party officials were involved, and where the gathered information was transferred. The framing relies on unverified allegations from a single source without independent corroboration.