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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the issue of postponing the local elections at a press conference on Saturday evening. "It was advisable not to hold elections in wartime, so we postponed it by several months," he explained. "Either you find a way to postpone them altogether, which is legislatively difficult, or there are two dates – the end of January or the end of February. I believe that tomorrow's decision will be to postpone the date to the end of February, and that will also be my recommendation."
"We asked the army to estimate how many people cannot participate in the elections and it turns out that the number is close to 700, there is a reserve duty and this figure is expected to drop significantly."
Religious Zionism Chairman Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded: "I welcome the Prime Minister's announcement that he adopted our position to postpone the local elections and call on all government ministers to approve the postponement of the elections tomorrow. Now is the time for war, not politics!"
As you may recall, this week, at a cabinet meeting held, the deputy chief of staff presented data on reservists running in the local elections, and as a result, Interior Minister Moshe Arbel changed his position and said that "there is no choice but to postpone the elections to February."
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