Netanyahu pushes turnout as Bennett tries persuasion in a café
An election-eve report follows four Israeli party leaders making their closing pitches on security, national identity and equal rights.
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הסיסמאות, ההבטחות - וההכפשות: הקמפיינים בישורת האחרונה
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- 2:03Eisenkot frames the election as a choice about Israel's identity at a Beersheba rally.
- 2:17Netanyahu urges Dimona supporters to concentrate on getting voters to the polls.
- 4:06Bennett meets skeptical young people at a Haifa café and tries to address their reservations.
- 4:45Ben-Gvir pitches stronger state authority, tougher punishment and his firearms reform in Kiryat Ata.
- 8:52Netanyahu emphasizes the Iranian threat and cooperation with President Trump.
- 10:11Bennett explains his changed position on LGBTQ rights and says he supports full equality.
Getting supporters to vote and changing skeptical voters' minds are different jobs. In Israel's final campaign stretch, Benjamin Netanyahu urges loyalists in Dimona to turn out, while Naftali Bennett sits with young people in a Haifa café, trying to soften their reservations about him.
Israel's Channel 13 News follows those encounters in a report narrated by Maya Aiden, published before the October 27 parliamentary election. Its title, "הסיסמאות, ההבטחות - וההכפשות: הקמפיינים בישורת האחרונה", means "Slogans, promises and smears: Election campaigns enter the final stretch."
Netanyahu, the prime minister and Likud leader, meets supporters at a restaurant in the southern city of Dimona, where the gathering includes a birthday celebration. His message is that persuasion is no longer necessary among this crowd: the task is getting people to the polling station. Elsewhere in the report, he emphasizes the Iranian threat and cooperation with US President Donald Trump. A later stop takes him to Yarka, a Druze town in northern Israel, where supporters welcome him warmly.
Bennett, a former prime minister leading the Together alliance, takes a more conversational approach in Haifa. Sitting across from young locals, he explains how his position on LGBTQ rights changed and says he supports full equality. Before leaving them in the street, he gives them the traditional priestly blessing.
In Beersheba, Gadi Eisenkot, the former military chief who leads Yashar, frames the election as a decision about Israel's identity. He also criticizes years of an us-and-them political culture. One resident predicts an Eisenkot premiership if turnout is high between Gedera and Haifa, an assessment offered by a voter, not a forecast established by the report.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the national security minister and leader of far-right Otzma Yehudit, addresses a gathering in Kiryat Ata. His pitch centers on stronger state authority, tougher punishment and expanded access to firearms. He presents the firearms reform as an achievement, saying it has brought 300,000 handguns in a year and a half.
The report ends its campaign encounters with Bennett's street-side blessing, following a café conversation in which the political pitch depended on answering doubts rather than rallying committed supporters.
Israel’s prime minister from 2021 to 2022. He now heads Bennett 2026, a party allied with Yesh Atid in the Together alliance.
More on Wikipedia ›An Israeli politician who leads the Yashar party. He headed the Israel Defense Forces from 2015 to 2019 and served as a minister without portfolio from 2023 to 2024.
More on Wikipedia ›Israel’s national security minister and leader of Otzma Yehudit, a far-right party. He has held the ministry since 2022, apart from a two-month interruption in early 2025.
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The report shows Bennett discussing voters' reservations and his positions at a café in Haifa.