Netanyahu Calls the Race 'Tight by a Hair' as Likud Pushes Turnout Before Oct. 27
Likud and Religious Zionism are working together to bring right-wing voters to the polls, while Itamar Ben-Gvir's party has been left out.
By Watchman Report staff ·
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Likud field activists that Israel's Oct. 27 election is extremely close, urging them to get supporters to vote, Israeli outlets reported this week. JFeed reports that Likud and Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionist Party have launched a joint turnout drive using door-to-door canvassing, phone banks and rides to the polls, aimed at about 200,000 right-wing voters.
The Jerusalem Post reported that Netanyahu and Smotrich held a joint "Saving the Right" conference in Jerusalem on Oct. 8, after signing a surplus-vote agreement. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was not invited, and his Otzma Yehudit party said Likud had refused to sign a similar agreement with it.
Polls cited by the Post show neither Netanyahu's bloc nor the opposition, led in polling by Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party, reaching a majority without Arab parties. A Channel 13 poll projected 55 seats for Netanyahu's bloc and 50 for the opposition bloc.
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