Israel’s polling stations had recorded a 47.5 percent turnout by 4 p.m. local time, the highest figure since the 1999 elections, when 51.8 percent of the electorate had already cast their ballots during the same period.
According to the director general of the Central Elections Committee, Orly Ades, more than 3.2 million Israelis have already gone to the polls, a figure significantly higher than in the last elections, when the turnout in the same period was around 42.3 percent.
However, turnout among the Arab population is not as high, at just 23 percent, according to the Hebrew University’s aChord center, as reported by the local daily ‘The Times of Israel’.
Israel holds this Tuesday its fifth elections since 2019, elections in which one of the main points of interest is placed on former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (1996 – 199 and 2009 – 2021) and his aspirations to regain the head of government.
In fact, in a last attempt to mobilize voters, Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, has shared on his social networks images of supposed lines of citizens waiting to vote.
However, verification reports point to the fact that the images correspond to the 2019 vote, the year in which he shared the same snapshots.
