Between threats and reality: the campaigns of all parties in the final days until the elections

Five days to the elections: every party is rallying votes in the home stretch, even at the expense of its bloc partners. Eisenkot (Yashar!) emphasizes that the elections are close and that his party must be the largest to receive the mandate first; Likud uses scare messages like "Right or Palestine"; Ben Gvir and Smotrich attack Likud and Winter.

Five days before the elections, the article reviews the campaign strategies of the parties in the home stretch, with each party having its own narrow goal — sometimes at the expense of its bloc partners. Gadi Eisenkot (Yashar!) promotes two messages: that the elections are very close, to motivate voters, and that his party must be the largest so that he receives the mandate to form the government first. Eisenkot quotes Netanyahu who said this week: "If Yashar! is larger than Likud, it will receive the mandate from the president." The goal is to allow him to swear in a minority government even without 61 seats. Likud focuses its campaign on negative videos with scare messages like "Right or Palestine," and centers the heads of the change bloc together with Abbas and members of the Joint List. In the last day, dozens of videos and recordings of Netanyahu will be sent to mobile phones. Another message: Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelicha are "burning right-wing votes." In Together, they fear that Eisenkot's "largest party" campaign will shrink the bloc, and they emphasize that the largest party figure is not decisive — citing the example of Tzipi Livni. The Joint List focuses on getting the Arab public to vote, and Yair Golan's Democrats promise not to sit with Netanyahu. Lieberman attacks the exemption from conscription law and talks about a "government of we will die and not enlist." The Haredi parties fear a drift to Black and White and to Ben Gvir and Smotrich. Ben Gvir tries to take mandates from Likud, and Smotrich attacks Winter and offered him the position of Defense Minister knowing he would refuse. Ra'am increases its appeal to the Bedouin society in the Negev, and the Reservists and the Economic Party saved a budget for the last week. Winter runs a victimization campaign and establishes a Russian-speaking headquarters.