Does it again: the city that predicted the election results
Rehovot is once again the city whose vote most closely resembles the national average, a status it has held since at least 2006. Haifa rose to second place thanks to an increase in Arab voter turnout, and Lod surprised in fourth place for the same reason. Within cities, sharp gaps between neighborhoods: in the Science neighborhood Yashar leads with 31%, in Givati neighborhood Likud with 38%.
Rehovot is once again the city whose vote most closely resembles the national average, a status it has held since at least the 2006 elections. Haifa rose to second place thanks to an increase in voter turnout in the Arab community, pushing Petah Tikva to third place. Lod surprised in fourth place, also thanks to widespread Arab voting. The city-level data hides sharp gaps between neighborhoods: in the Science neighborhood in Rehovot, Yashar (Eisenkot) received 31% and Likud 15%, while in the Givati neighborhood Likud leads with 38% and Yashar with 15.5%. Dr. Alon Yakter from Tel Aviv University explains that the urban diversity does not indicate full mixing, but rather a sharp internal division between areas with distinct socio-economic identities.