Judge Solberg's new battle against the Shas party
Chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Judge Noam Solberg, opened a front against the Shas party and accused it of violating the Election Propaganda Law. According to him, the party used its ballot letters (Shin and Samekh) before the permitted date. Shas claimed it was an old law they have suffered from for years. Solberg recommended that the Knesset amend the law's wording from 1959.
Chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Judge Noam Solberg, opened a front today (Wednesday) against the Shas party and accused it of violating the Election Propaganda Law. According to Solberg, the party used its ballot letters – Shin and Samekh – before the permitted date, which is 42 days before the elections. Shas responded that it is an old law they have suffered from for years. When the party approached Solberg and explained its claims, he replied that they have had many representatives in the Knesset and Israeli governments over the years, and if the law bothered them, they should have changed it. Finally, the judge recommended that the Knesset amend the law's wording and adapt it to our time, since the current wording was written in 1959 – a time when campaigns looked completely different. The article presents the positions of both sides without a clear narrative bias from the writer.