{"id":479339,"date":"2026-06-06T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/479339\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:57:09","slug":"the-ballots-that-challenge-a-core-myth-of-israeli-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/479339\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballots That Challenge a Core Myth of Israeli Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">One of the axioms of Israeli politics is the legendary voter turnout of the ultra-Orthodox. Transportation services for voters, voter-management apps that even work on kosher phones, the admorim \u2013 or rabbinic leaders \u2013 who rule their communities with a firm hand, and the immense pressure on anyone considering staying home all supposedly combine to produce a voter turnout rate unmatched anywhere else in Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the axioms of Israeli politics is the legendary voter turnout of the ultra-Orthodox. Transportation services for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,2649,954,43,12185],"class_list":["post-479339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israeli-elections","tag-israeli-politics","tag-news","tag-ultra-orthodox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}