Netanyahu Pulls Out All the Stops Ahead of Israeli Election
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Uriel Sinai/Getty Images(JERUSALEM) — Israel’s prime minister is fighting tooth and nail, hoping to win re-election when Israelis head to the voting booths on Tuesday.
In a last-ditch effort to woo voters, Benjamin Netanyahu headlined a rally in Tel Aviv Sunday night. Speaking to an estimated 20,000 right-wing supporters, the prime minister implored everyone to vote, saying there was a “real danger that a left-wing government will rise to power.”
Netanyahu’s Likud party is trailing his rival Isaac Herzog’s Zionist Union party in the polls.
Unlike the U.S., Israelis won’t choose a candidate when they head to the polls. Instead, they’ll choose a party. The leader of the party that wins is often the one who becomes prime minister after the president asks him or her to form a government.
In order for Netanyahu to win a fourth term in office, his Likud party needs to come out on top.
His supporters are hoping that even if Likud loses on election day, the right-wing bloc will still back Netanyahu’s bid to remain Israel’s prime minister. But the center-right parties may defect, so his victory is far from secure.
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