The "Derecho" movement allegedly violates the instructions of the Election Commission - and acts to encourage voting mainly in the left strongholds. "Our way": "Encourage voting in the general public"

• We walk through Rabin Square // Photo: Gideon Markovich

Recordings and documents documenting the activities of the "Our Way" and reached Israel today reveal the area's activities aimed at massively encouraging voting, especially in the central area and in areas where the left-center voting rate is relatively high. According to the information, the movement may be in violation of the Central Election Commission's instructions and the guidelines set by Judge Melzer in the September elections.

"Our Way," which was founded before the 2015 election called "V15," is allegedly working to encourage voting among left-wing voters, but consistently refuses to register with the state comptroller as an active body in an election, a matter that would allow it to act partisan freely - but would require it to reveal donor identities and details More organizations.

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As part of its position, the movement is trying to "go between the drops" - not to violate the election committee's instructions, but still dramatically influence the election. In a decision on the eve of the September election, the movement declared that it would only act to encourage general voting, "that it is not done jointly or in affiliation with any political body, and this campaign will be done equitably in terms of national dispersal in areas where the turnout in the last election was low."

However, according to the materials that came to Israel today, "Our Way" allegedly violates these statements in two ways: First, it operates primarily in the central region and on the basis of databases of people who identify with the center-left values, and it does not run a campaign to encourage voting general; Secondly, the movement cooperates with distinct political-party elements associated with the left-wing parties, as opposed to a waiter's instruction.

"The majority from the Dan Region"

"Our Way" holds a database of more than 370,000 people, gathered during various activities such as the Rabin Assembly, petitions initiated by the organization and demonstrations. This information serves as the basis for analyzing and creating a campaign to encourage voting, which will naturally focus on left-wingers. In a recording we received, Shir Tisani, a volunteer coordinator for "Our Way," acknowledges that the organization's distribution lists are primarily targeted at people who identify with leftist values: "370,000 people in our repositories of people who have supported our path through such and other initiatives." A moderate majority in a country that believes in the same liberal values, a Jewish and democratic state and the eradication of racism and incitement. If you believe in these things, the people we communicate with also believe in them. " Geographically, the focus is also quite clear: "Most of the people in our database are people from the Gush Dan area or the center."

The movement is planning a campaign this week that will include addressing young couples, signage near kindergartens, and distributing informational materials designed to encourage voting. Another tactic is "a decisive neighborhood," in which a volunteer takes responsibility for a residential or street building where he lives, and his job is to make personal contact with the tenants and make sure they go out to vote on Election Day. Internal correspondence reached us indicates that the organization intends to reach 3,000 volunteers of this type. According to Roy Dafrin, who is responsible for the "Our Way" initiative, the organization's activities are mainly focused on Gush Dan, although "there are collaborations throughout the country." An internal map of "Our Way" that reached "Israel Today" shows the division of buildings, and a large majority of this activity is focused on the central area, with emphasis on Tel Aviv and north. According to the map, in the south of the city, as in Bat Yam (55 percent of the vote), in Or Yehuda or Petah Tikva, there is almost no activity in the project.

The friends from the left

The information that has come to our attention reveals that our "path" allegedly violates the statement given by Judge Meltzer in another way, and is collaborations with significant political groups. One of these groups is the "Friends of Thelma", a group of 10,000 former Labor Party activists, run by Thelma Eligon Rose, of the Kinneret Zamora Pavilion Publishers. The group supported the Avi Gabai camp in the Labor Party and withdrew from the party with the establishment of the Democratic camp. In the current election, they returned to operate under the "Truth" brand in favor of the Labor-Meretz-Merz union, which they co-founded.

Thelma's friends are working on the upcoming elections in collaboration with "Our Way." In a recent conversation with Eligon Rose, she was asked about the "our way" activity and the constraints imposed by the election committee: "They are doing it in advance because they are left-wing, too, you see?" But "our way", unlike other groups, has its limitations. "But they should not ... find out for a second - straight from the Likud party they will make a conditional order or something. But they are allowed to go 'vote'," she says. In contrast, Eligon Rose and her friends are free from restrictions: "We, we are allowed to say what we want, we do not say on their behalf. You say we are the 'Thelma's Friends' group and we want to raise our camp turnout. It's just two groups, but we're talking about rules like that. "

Aligon Rose has a clear relationship between her and "our way": "They are obliged not to do it exclusively in areas where our vote is ours. They must be objective in raising the percentage of votes really," she says, but despite the restrictions on movement, "our way" can Share her database. "They know exactly what areas ... they let us work only in those areas. They've done it already, because of all the demonstrations and everyone who participated in them with all sorts of things that say you left they have lists of all kinds of people. We work with their support."

"Stop talking"

In a phone conversation with a Shtisani song from "Our Way" with an activist, she referred to the "Our Way" collaboration with political groups such as "The Friends of Thelma." "I'm legally barred from talking about my political opinions and also barred from saying ... They help us but they are a certain group that they sit with her or somewhere else and they make calls ... yes in collaboration with us, and they use the phone numbers we give them."

How close is our way of working with "Thelma's friends"? This is evidenced by a photo from the organization's log of activity that came to our attention, which included three instances of group activity over the past two weeks until the election, highlighting "Hamal" being operated from Alligon Rose's house in Savyon during the critical days before Election Day.

At the same time, "Makeover for Israel" is another activist group that cooperates with the field activities of "Our Way". Who founded it and heads it is Brigadier General (Res.) Assaf Agmon, a Labor Party member. In a recent conversation with a potential activist, he provides more details on the backstage organization and their collaboration with "Our Way": "What We Do, We Work To increase the percentage of voting. A large part of those with the right to vote, even where there is a large proportion of left-wing voters, are not going to vote. This is our activity. We cooperate with 'our way' in this. "

Agmon also knows the limitations of "our way": "We do not act as 'our way'. We cooperate with them because they have a lot of data and a lot of data. We work in places that have identified them with more than 50 percent of voting center-left. We do not go to the neighborhood. Hope but for Afeka, Ramat Hasharon, Herzliya. Places we know according to the analysis of the results. "

To the activist, if the lists we "provide" provide segmented voting for left-wing parties, Agmon replies: "That's right. We're going to the places where most people are voting for the center-left. These are the places we work for."

"Only collaborate"

The use of promotional materials should also be careful. "We use things that are not written 'our way', but it doesn't really matter. If you get something with their logo you can cut it," explains Agmon. "We are doing this because 'our way' is under the Likud microscope. Anything they do they issue a probation order and all kinds of such." He said despite the caution our "paths" have to act, they have the same goal: "We do not belong to them, we only cooperate with them. We do not want it to be under their activity, but it is all in collaboration with them and for the same purpose: It doesn't matter if it's work or blue and white. You vote. If they're not going to vote it's like they voted for Bibi. People need to understand that. "

Mickey Rhoda, also a "makeover for Israel" activist, also explains in another conversation the method: "We can use the materials of our way even though we do not work with our way. We use the people of our way and they have the mechanisms And so on. "

Comments: "Israeli public voting parties - from Safed to Alfei Menashe"

"Our Way" Response: " For at least a month and a half, after the third elections have been announced, our Way Movement encourages voting in the Israeli public as a whole, as an important democratic mission, to which volunteers from all over the country - Safed, Beer Sheva, Modi'in, Tel Aviv, Bat Yam, Jerusalem , Alfie Menashe and more.

"Anyone who appeals and wants to help raise the overall voting percentage - on the ground, in networks and over the phone - is a welcome volunteer and offered assistance, regardless of one party or another, without asking and without knowing who of the parties the volunteers will vote, provided they are encouraged to vote. There is a real fear that parts of the Israeli public, in all its tones, who feel despair and disappointment at the inability to form a government, will remain at home and protest their protests without voting.

"Our path works throughout Israel in various forms, digital and also by volunteers and staff, as does the" crucial neighborhood "venture that operates throughout Israel and anyone who wants to take part in it, no matter where they live.

"The movement works with volunteers and anyone who cares and wants to encourage voting in general, as an exercise of civil right and duty, but not with political parties or bodies that are part of it."

Masaf Agmon said: "The information is wrong, 'a makeover for Israel' ceased to operate more than six months ago."

Micky Rhoda said: "I am a private person and act as such."

Theligam Aligon Rose did not respond