{"id":655249,"date":"2026-10-23T23:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/655249\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T23:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:32:09","slug":"opinion-for-the-israel-election-im-flying-home-to-vote-against-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/655249\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | For the Israel election, I\u2019m flying home to vote against Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"V4GBEOTUZFEY5DRPELSVNDW6AY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Jonathan Dekel is a filmmaker living in New York and Wahat al-Salam\/Neve Shalom, Israel.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"B7XZ4F3HPVCMPICRI5FZ735NLI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/10\/21\/will-next-weeks-election-change-israel-heres-where-candidates-stand-top-issues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israelis will vote<\/a> in the most consequential election of my lifetime. I\u2019ll be one of them, even though I live in New York for now. Israel doesn\u2019t offer absentee ballots to citizens abroad. If you want to vote, you have to be standing in Israel on election day. So my wife and I are getting on a plane, leaving our three children with a babysitter, and praying war won\u2019t break out and strand us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Dekel is a filmmaker living in New York and Wahat al-Salam\/Neve Shalom, Israel. On Tuesday, Israelis will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-655249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655249","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=655249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}