Increasing voter turnout and managing election day: The joint plan of Likud and Religious Zionism – without Otzma Yehudit
Likud and Religious Zionism are launching a joint plan to increase voter turnout, including close coordination until election day. Otzma Yehudit and Ben Gvir will not take part. Head of the Binyamin Council, Israel Gantz, will lead the plan aimed at reaching about 200,000 potential voters. The plan includes joint management of election day, door-to-door activities, and assistance to voters.
Likud and Religious Zionism will launch today (Thursday) a joint plan to increase voter turnout for both parties. The plan includes close coordination between them from now until election day, while Otzma Yehudit and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir will not take part. Head of the Binyamin Council, Israel Gantz, will lead the plan aimed at reaching about 200,000 potential voters who did not plan to go to the polls, and convincing them to vote in various ways. The plan also includes joint management of election day, including coordination of messages and field operations: activists will go door-to-door in strategic locations, voters who have difficulty reaching polling stations will receive assistance, and telephone outreach will be conducted in areas with low response. The invitation to the joint conference "Saving the Right" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will launch the plan at the "Saving the Right" conference, to be held at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem. The conference will be attended by several senior rabbis and heads of institutions in Religious Zionism, including Elyakim Levanon, Yigal Levinstein, and Yehoshua Shapira. Ben Gvir, as mentioned, was not invited to the conference and his party will not take part in the plan. To bridge the gap, associates of Netanyahu offered Ben Gvir to hold a joint conference of Likud and Otzma Yehudit in the south at a later date. In Otzma Yehudit, they said yesterday to Kan News that "this is further evidence of an attempt to push the party out of the next government."