Following unusual voter turnout: Minister Smotrich convenes emergency meeting

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich changed his schedule and convened an emergency meeting at his party headquarters following high voter turnout data in the Arab community and left-wing strongholds. Party sources warn that the right's victory depends on voting for parties that are certain to pass the electoral threshold. The minister will arrive at headquarters for an urgent meeting with senior staff.

Finance Minister and Religious Zionism chairman Bezalel Smotrich changed his planned schedule for election day and convened an emergency meeting at his party headquarters. Instead of continuing his tours of polling stations, the minister will arrive at headquarters for an urgent meeting with senior staff, following the unusual voter turnout data recorded so far. According to an official statement from the party, the decision was made following particularly high voter turnout in the Arab community and in the "golden polling stations" of the left. Sources in Religious Zionism said that voter turnout has reached a 53-year high, and that there is no chance for the splinter parties in the right-wing bloc to pass the electoral threshold. They called on the public: "The right's victory depends only on voting for parties that are certain to pass the electoral threshold."