Between the feed and the ballot box: Who represents the youth?

In a Kan 11 podcast episode, Keren Neubach speaks with three young people about their relationship with politics: Elchanan, who was disappointed from within; Itai, who believes in influence from the outside; and Noa, who aspires to be a Knesset member. About 640,000 young people will vote for the first time tomorrow.

In the Kan 11 podcast episode 'Between the feed and the ballot box: Who represents the youth?', host Keren Neubach speaks with three young people about their relationship with Israeli politics. Elchanan Adovitsky, now 22, joined the Likud Youth at age 15 and two days later stood in the same room as Benjamin Netanyahu. At 17, he interned in the office of a Knesset member. Today he says that the statement 'I want to be a politician' sounds 'like I'm saying I want to go to prison.' Itai, the editor-in-chief of 'Under the Radar,' a media outlet for youth operating only on social networks, believes one can influence from the outside. Noa, a former parliamentary advisor, wants to be a Knesset member and even a minister, and is willing to pay the price. The episode mentions that about 640,000 young people will vote for the first time in the Knesset elections, having gone through the coronavirus as teenagers and the war as soldiers, and many of them do not trust their representatives.