Prime Minister Netanyahu toured Mahane Yehuda: "Two more seats and we will achieve stability" • Bad future aimed at undecided voters in Gush Dan • Bennett visited cities with high voter turnout for the Likud • Shas warns complacency • Labor party in Lima braking • "We will pass the blocking percentage"
On the last day before the polls opened, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued his tours around the country.
He toured the Mahane Yehuda market, and the corona ward that was closed at Shaare Zedek Hospital.
Yesterday, Netanyahu continued to attack New Hope chairman Gideon Saar and right-wing chairman Naftali Bennett and say that the two will go with chairman Yesh Atid Yair Lapid.
Netanyahu said in an interview with the GLC that "Bennett is misleading his voters.
Gideon Saar said, 'We will go to government with Lapid, with Bennett.'
Bennett did not say he would not go into government with Lapid or that Lapid would not be part of the government.
Lapid will control such a government. "
According to Netanyahu, "We need two more seats to form a stable right-wing government. The alternative is a rotation government with these friends who play games. What they hid for months is revealed on election night, there is a secret deal between them, between Lapid, Gideon and Bennett. This is a brotherhood. 2, as I was forced to take Lapid as a failed finance minister. "
Netanyahu added: "I am facing the corona, bringing millions of vaccines and turning Israel into a vaccine power, I am facing Iran. There are four more peace agreements on the way. I came to the gates of justice, a few weeks ago people fought for their lives, doctors and nurses sacrificed themselves, now close "This department. It's a happy moment to be the first to emerge from the corona in the world. In the world, everything is closed, we are all vaccinated."
He made it clear that he would not form a government on the voice of Mansour Abbas.
"He is competing with me. He voted against the peace agreements I brought," he said.
The party has a future and has one goal today: to bring about the 61st seat.
How will they do it?
They will look for him among the undecided, who according to the party stand for ten seats and many of them are mainly in the Tel Aviv stronghold, where voting rates are considered low.
The director of Election Day will be retired MK Miki Levy, who is serving in this position on behalf of the party for the fourth time. Today, more than 12,000 volunteers and employees will participate, who will be deployed at all polling stations where Future is entitled to polling committee standards (about 6,300). That in the various centers around the country and in the centers to which many citizens are expected to go, "young people have a future" will come out to persuade and call for the encouragement of voting.
MK Miki Levy said that "the struggle in this election drains into the 61st mandate.
If people go out to vote, it's in our hands and it's possible.
The territory of Has Future is the strongest, with thousands of committed activists.
"In the end, this is what determines elections, and we are all over the country to motivate voters to the polls, because this time it is a choice between the government of Litzman, Ben Gvir and Smutrich and a sane government."
After the polls close, about 300 volunteers will attend the vote count and serve as observers.
Also, hundreds of party volunteers have been prepared to count the double envelopes starting Wednesday at midnight.
Right-wing chairman Naftali Bennett "deafened" the area the day before the election. Among other things, he visited the cities of Ashdod, Ashkelon and Rehovot, and in fact visited more than 17 points, most of them mixed cities with high voter turnout for the Likud. To Netanyahu's 'drinking votes', first published in "Israel Today", as well as to "drink" votes back.
Bennett spoke with passers-by and asked them for support and to vote for B. on Election Day.
Most of the party's resources were invested in storming the area, with an emphasis on cities affiliated with the Likud party.
Throughout the day, all right-wing candidates held dozens of home circles, meetings and tours of markets, malls and shopping centers in order to meet as many people as possible and convince the undecided.
In addition, at the right-wing headquarters, Chamal Telephones was set up, from which thousands of calls a day were made to potential voters.
On the last day, the right-wing campaign focused messages on two levels - refuting Netanyahu and the Likud's claim that Bennett will go to a rotating government with Yair Lapid, alongside focusing effort on new hope voters, who are losing momentum and falling in the polls.
The party insists that following a new hope led by Gideon Saar is in a worse situation than what is reported in the polls, and hopes to "drink" votes from there as well.
Bennett also worked in a focused manner with the national-religious sector.
According to the party, this public, defined as Bennett's "base," disapproves of Netanyahu's interference in sectoral politics and sees his and Smutritz's concerted effort as a conspiracy that weakens the power of the right.
Bennett spent the day with the strategic adviser who has been accompanying the campaign for the past few months, George Birnbaum, the man in the polls and research, who is responsible for analyzing the information in the campaign.
Birnbaum, the cultivator of the mythological adviser Arthur Finkelstein, is a figure that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is well acquainted with.
The two worked together in a campaign in which Netanyahu was elected prime minister.
New Tikva chairman Gideon Saar will vote today at 9:00 at the polling station near his place of residence in north Tel Aviv. Yesterday, during the crucial hours, Saar focused on the attack on right-wing chairman Naftali Bennett.
In an interview with Radio South, Saar claimed that Bennett had distributed fictitious surveys to the media that show that new hope is approaching the blocking percentage.
"Sharp and smooth - he invented a story. He knows very well that he is going down in the polls and I am rising. He is just a liar. He just went and lied under pressure to mislead the voters. This is behavior that suits Netanyahu and one Netanyahu is enough for us. There is simply a breach of any code of honesty here. "
According to Saar, "This is a false story of a poor man under pressure, a man who once was no longer blocked. So he goes and sells lies to journalists, and there were journalists who wanted to see this poll and when he did not show it waved it. Unfortunately Bennett in the last election campaign also revealed Inability to stand up, he signed this childish document last night, which is in fact another document of loyalty to Netanyahu. "
This is a document that Bennett presented yesterday, with a commitment not to sit in the government under Lapid and not to lean on the seats of the RAAM party. Bennett signed the document, and called on Netanyahu to sign it as well. The Likud ignored the call of a right-wing chairman.
Commenting on this, Saar added: "Bennett made a mistake, his right to make it clear to everyone that he is in Netanyahu's pocket, the public that wants change will judge him."
In addition, in an interview with News 12, when asked directly if he would sit under Lapid, he replied: "I did not rule out rotation options as Bennett did here. I do not say I will agree and I do not say I will not agree. I do not sign myself to restrictions that are not necessary. I have two goals: to replace Netanyahu and the government, and to prevent a fifth election. "
The joint list is working until the last minute before the polls open to mobilize every possible vote among the "base" of the list's confident voters in the Arab sector.
The chairman, MK Ayman Odeh, the faction's chairman, Dr. Ahmad Tibi, and the other candidates held many house circles right up until the eve of the opening of the polls.
The message conveyed to the supporters of the joint list is that a low turnout in the sector could play in Netanyahu's favor and severely damage the list's power and electoral and political influence.
Also, in an attempt to wake up the area in preparation for the opening of the polling stations, the joint list did not spare gimmicks that were included as part of the campaign in Hebrew in the big cities.
One of the gimmicks that attracted much attention and reactions in the field and on social networks was a large bulldozer that traveled on the roads of Jaffa and south of Tel Aviv, and was decorated with a variety of signs that read in Hebrew and Arabic: "This bulldozer does not destroy houses, but builds a common future."
The fact that the joint list is fighting head to head with the Ra'am party led by Mansour Abbas over the votes of Arab voters is keeping sleep from the eyes of senior members of the joint list and the campaign team. According to a senior member of the Joint Election Day headquarters, recent polls indicate a rising trend The Arab.
So is the Likud, led by Netanyahu, while the joint list has won only 7-8 seats.
With attacks from all directions on the chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu, Avigdor Lieberman will vote today at the polling station in his town of Nokdim - and then travel on a tour of the party's headquarters around the country.
He will meet with activists who in recent days have stepped up referrals to the secular electorate, the one that did not vote in previous elections.
The party, whose internal polls predict a double-digit number of seats, estimates that their votes could lead to more seats.
Ahead of Election Day, Lieberman's personal attacks intensified: on the one hand, images were circulated on social media portraying him as a dictator and fascist, and on the other, an unprecedented attack by a former senior party official and one of Lieberman's associates, former Minister Sufa Landver.
In a video she posted on her Facebook page, Landver called Lieberman a dictator and hater of ultra-Orthodox, Arabs and homosexuals.
The party responded that her remarks stemmed from frustration that she was not included in the party list.
Former party member Robert Iltov, who said she did not work for the LGBT community, also joined the attack yesterday.
In Israel, our home will have to minimize the damage that may be caused by the words of Iltov and Landver, which is considered to be valued among the Russian sector.
Shas chairman Aryeh Deri will open Election Day with a morning prayer at Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's grave with the movement's activists.
He will then vote near his home in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem.
During the day, Deri is expected to visit the party's election headquarters and tour the country.
Yesterday he warned complacency, in his view, claiming that "two seats are missing for the right-wing bloc."
At a staff meeting with the regional centers of the Shas movement, Deri outlined the principles of the movement, as he did in each of the last election campaigns. "We know that everything that is important is in very serious danger.
Shabbat, conversion, the Western Wall, help for the weak.
We know that such a government when it is established will bring decrees to the weak that the Corona is inviting us to.
This is my main message, I do not want to waste our time.
I want you to come back, each as the head of staff responsible for a particular field, and start conveying that message with all your might.
"People are indifferent," the chairman complained, adding that "the prime minister, in my opinion, made a mistake in conveying a message that he has 61 seats.
He has no such polls, he may have wanted to show a good atmosphere.
I do not disagree with him.
We have the potential to get to that, but in my opinion we are not there, so we have to do everything to get to '61. "
On the possibility of not having 61 seats for the bloc, Deri added, accusing the "second bloc" of being "not in favor of a Jewish state, neither for a Jewish identity nor for all the things we believe in. They are already closed to each other, unfortunately even Gideon Saar. "We have people like Elkin and other people who are our friends and our friends and they are part of the right-wing camp. They decided to make an alliance with Yair Lapid, with Yvette Lieberman and with Meretz to overthrow Netanyahu."
The chairman of Torah Judaism, MK Moshe Gafni, will vote this morning near his home in Bnei Brak and from there will go on tours of the party headquarters and the field.
Gafni sarcastically referred to Smutrich's squinting at the ultra-Orthodox voters: "I suggest to MK Smutrich not to harm the intelligence of the ultra-Orthodox public because he is smart and intelligent enough," Gafni warned him. "I travel all over the country from north to south and I tell you - he Will not receive votes from our public.
I also said this to Prime Minister Netanyahu, that he should look for votes in the Likud and not with us. "
Gafni said of Lieberman that he had known him "for many years, even when he asked me to enter Rabbi Kanievsky to receive a blessing. I heard what Sufa Landver said about him. The ultra-Orthodox public will not be harmed by Lieberman, but we believe law enforcement should have called and questioned him."
In a recording distributed by Gafni to the ultra-Orthodox public, he declared: "We are facing a fateful decision that was unparalleled. We can continue to live in Israel, live a Torah life and raise our families as it has been to this day - or vice versa."
In recent days an interesting process has been taking place among the potential voters of blue and white.
Despite the disappointment from the party that violated the election promise and entered the Netanyahu government with the outbreak of the corona crisis, it seems that some are returning to consider voting for it.
In addition, a new electorate is staring at the party - disappointed by the Labor Party.
The two main messages of the party will also be conveyed today in blue and white with all their might, on Election Day.
The first message: Disappointed by the Labor Party, "You have a new home," along with the message that party chairman Bnei Gantz is an honest man and therefore "Gantz in the Knesset, or Bibi forever."
As mentioned, the second message seems to have permeated the undecided voters in recent days, so it is possible that blue and white will still surprise and end up with a higher seat than the polls predicted.
Following the ugly election campaign, there seem to be many votes looking for a “decent” election and Gantz is proposing it.
Thus, in the way of elimination, it seems that Blue and White's way of surprising and finishing in a better place, as party officials had anticipated at the beginning of the election campaign, may materialize.
Last night, blue-and-white chairman and Defense Minister Bnei Gantz sent a message to the bloc's parties, saying: "Together we will survive - we will fall apart.
There is no party facing Netanyahu, but there is a bloc that can prevent the continuation of his rule. "He warned that" the first action Netanyahu will take if he reaches 61 will not be to transfer grants - but to fire Mandelblit and Isman. "It should be noted that Ganz plans to stand outside today To the Ministry of Justice and deliver a statement from there - in the middle of Election Day.
The blue-and-white chairman added that "Israel is in danger from an extremist group led by a prime minister who seeks to erode the foundations of democracy, which has been preventing a state budget for three years, which lies, incites and endangers Israel's security.
"I never thought it would allow me to rotate - but I did not believe it would dismantle the government within a few months and deprive Israeli citizens of a state budget, with hundreds of thousands of unemployed flooding the economy and businesses collapsing."
The chairman of the Labor Party, MK Merav Michaeli, and the members of the list will today concentrate an effort to increase, as much as possible, the turnout among potential voters, especially in Tel Aviv and the central region.
A major goal of the work is to reach a high turnout.
To get it, Michaeli and her friends will visit many polling stations.
Beyond that, the work attaches great importance to the conduct of the day, and will operate during it in accordance with careful planning, which will include a campaign calling on potential voters to come to the polls and make an impact.
In addition, they will publish a variety of videos and announcements during Election Day and will focus on voting status.
The Labor campaign was based on the character of Michaeli, who starred on billboards and in every possible medium, with a young line approach, extensive use of social media, and appealing to women as well as the proud community.
After there was a feeling at work that Michaeli had appealed too much to the female electorate as part of her attempt to achieve equality in all areas, she came out with a special call to the male public in male language.
At the same time, in view of the fact that many voters are senior citizens, more than 100,000 personal letters have been mailed to these voters.
The Labor Party has come to the conclusion that in this election there are a particularly large number of undecided, who are still not sure who to vote for, if at all they will get to the polls.
The party is facing a wave of veterans who have decided to support Blue and White, including senior Histadrut officials.
"Every decisive vote" - this is Meretz's crucial and not really surprising line of activity on Election Day.
2,500 activists and volunteers will weaken the polling stations across the country, to make sure that the names that appear in the party listings as supporters will all come to vote for Meretz.
In light of the borderline polls and the horror of the blocking percentage, the left-wing party is interested in avoiding a tragic night of results, with one of the variables that could bring it out of this dramatic result depending on the Arab voice, which is currently in question.
The goal is to bring more than 30,000 Arab voters to the polls, similar to the number of votes Meretz received from the sector in the first round of elections - in 2019.
At the same time, the party wants to get the best out of the Druze community, and activists will try to make souls there.
"Our messages are starting to work and we are seeing a return of voters to the party," the party believes, "this is reflected in both the networks and the phones the party makes to activists."
Chairman MK Nitzan Horowitz spoke yesterday with citizens on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv.
In religious Zionism, swords were sharpened on the last day before the polls opened.
Party chairman Bezalel Smutrich and the other candidates made sure to tour the country from north to south.
Adv. Itamar Ben Gvir devoted the last day to kicking off the field, and convincing hundreds of undecided in telephone conversations. Ben Gvir opened the morning with a campaign meeting of the Religious Zionist Party headquarters, and from there continued to Telephony in Jerusalem - where there are many telephone conversations. And to the right.
Ben Gvir explained to the undecided that in order for the Likud to be the ruling party and the prime minister to be Netanyahu, the seats of the religious Zionist party are owed, while without Smutrich, Netanyahu does not have 61 seats to form a right-wing government.
In addition, to those undecided between him and the right, Ben Gvir presented the tangible danger that after the election Naftali Bennett will join the government with Lapid and Merav Michaeli and thus transfer votes from right to left, with religious Zionism the only party committed to sitting in a right-wing Netanyahu-led government.
In addition, Ben Gvir has toured several major centers, including the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, along with dozens of field activists, and received calls for support.
During the tour of the Judea camp, Ben Gvir said that "we have a historic opportunity to bring a real victory to the right-wing bloc tomorrow and to form a full-fledged right-wing government. For that to happen and Netanyahu to be prime minister, a government to reform the judiciary will restore deterrence to IDF soldiers." Expel the infiltrators from Israel and put an end to terrorism and crime in the south - the Knesset owes the seats of religious Zionism.
A friend brings a friend, and we win. "
Ben Gvir added that "unlike the 'right' governments that have been up to date, this time the right will for the first time be right not only in speech - but mainly in deeds. This time there will be no Liebermen and Gantzs who stick sticks in the wheels for such critical corrections in the required areas. "61 seats for the formation of a right-wing government. We must not miss this opportunity."
The RAAM party, led by MK Mansour Abbas, radiates cautious optimism and encourages recent polls, according to which the party that split from the joint list with a big bang and caused a political earthquake in the Arab sector is expected to pass the blocking percentage.
A senior official at the UAV election day headquarters even claimed that in-depth surveys conducted in recent days have suggested that the party may even win more seats from the joint list and at its expense.
"The decision to deal head-to-head with the joint list of Arab sector votes was a brilliant strategy, proving itself in the meantime," said the senior official, adding: "We focused on our base of voters in the Arab sector, and the Arab public understood the message as the joint list deals with the Israeli left." "In political issues that do not interest the sector," RAAM works for Arab society and invests every lecturer in the Arab public. "
However, the senior official stressed that the RAAM fears complacency and is careful: "We emphasize to our electorate how important this time they will come to vote that every vote is very important, especially to a sectoral party like the RAAM."
The Economic Party, led by Prof. Yaron Zelicha, ignores all the polls and continues to mature - while promising that tonight they will be the election surprise.
Zelicha turned to his voters and said "do not give in to the intimidation campaign" and added: "I believe we will pass and in a big way".
As a new party, they emphasize the "struggle for every vote."
The party also trusts the young people, who are potential voters for the issue of the cost of living that the party deals with.
Participating in the article: Daniel Roth-Avnery, Daniel Sirioti, Dan Lavie, Yehuda Schlesinger, Yuri Yalon and Efrat Forsher