Shas wins in the city of Elad, where the candidate on its behalf Yehuda Botbol, defeated the incumbent mayor Israel Parosh. In Bnei Brak, the former mayor Hanoch Seibert won the race for mayor with 59% of the votes.
The elections arouse great interest not only in the purely ultra-Orthodox cities, but also in cities whose residents fear they will become so. The latter is entirely for the local authority elections, which have been described as "a fateful campaign that must not be shirked"