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Ballots and camera pauses mark Israeli party leaders' polling visits

A brief election-day montage moves between five polling locations, capturing family appearances and the choreography of the press photo.

Channel: ynet Hebrew channel ·

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An envelope hovers above a ballot box in Rosh Haayin while a party leader checks whether the photographers are ready. Once they have their shot, he drops it inside.

That small pause is part of an election-morning montage published by Israel's ynet news outlet, showing party leaders casting their ballots on October 27. Rather than campaign speeches or predictions, the short video concentrates on the voting ritual: emerging from behind a screen, approaching the box and facing the cameras.

The sequence begins in Kiryat Arba, then moves to Umm al-Fahm and Rosh Haayin. In Kedumim, children accompany a voter behind the polling screen before he deposits his envelope. The final scene shows a couple posing together in Nokdim. Kiryat Arba, Kedumim and Nokdim are Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The footage captures the opening of a day whose outcome remained unresolved overnight. In its subsequent coverage, the outlet reported that exit polls left neither main political bloc with a governing majority, pointing toward complicated coalition negotiations.

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