The city that never sleeps for a moment goes out today (Tuesday) to vote in the local authority elections.
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, who has been in office since 1998, will try to win a sixth term in a row and close more than 30 years in office.
Huldai included in the election campaign the person who was his opponent in the previous elections, former Knesset member Assaf Zamir, to serve as number 2 and possibly even be the man to succeed Huldai the day he decides to retire.
Ron Huldai/Official website, Eyal Nebo
Huldai sought to distance himself as much as possible from the appearance of politicization and raking in political capital from the disaster.
From the beginning of the fighting until recently, he kept his political advisors away from him, leaving them on hold.
Instead, he replaced the Shabbats in Kaplan with Shabbats in Shaul Hamelech, with rallies for the release of the kidnapped.
The attempt to show involvement in one struggle was replaced by another.
The program that aired exactly one week before the massacre in Otef and was shelved immediately after it may signal the direction in which he will go.
After the addition of Zamir, he officially opened the campaign.
"Tel Aviv must remain Tel Aviv," the ads read under his picture.
So they talked confidently about victory.
Today they may be optimistic, but they refrain from making firm statements, trying to avoid complacency.
Orna Barbiei/official website, photo: Ilan Bashor
Opposite Huldai is the former minister and the first champion of the IDF, Orna Barbibai. The former MK retired from the Knesset, where she served on behalf of Yesh Atid, and decided to run for mayor in an attempt to oust Huldai from his seat.
Barbie is trying to arouse the protest sentiment among the residents of the Israeli protest center.
To ride the wave of the year of blockades, disruptions and calls against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, whose memory has faded with the arrival of a much bigger event.
and create a parallel between the national and the local.
Netanyahu = Huldai.
If Israel needs new leadership, how is Tel Aviv different?
Barbie asks in a sequence of election videos.
This is the main password and the card with which she believes she can, perhaps, create a chance for herself to win the entire pot.
In Tel Aviv, two more candidates are running for mayor.
Yuval Zellner, former member of the Knesset from Kadima, running from Tikva Hadada and Amir Suleiman in Daran.
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