{"id":658679,"date":"2026-10-27T15:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658679\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:18:16","slug":"israel-election-2026-millions-of-israelis-vote-in-highest-recorded-election-turnout-by-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658679\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Election 2026 | Millions of Israelis Vote in Highest-Recorded Election Turnout by Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" title=\"Moti Leitner at the launch of the Haredi Public Party in Bet Shemesh, near Jerusalem, in August. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi\" alt=\"Moti Leitner at the launch of the Haredi Public Party in Bet Shemesh, near Jerusalem, in August.\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1603\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/183508-1.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz xt7dq6l x193iq5w xh8yej3 x1huxd7x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" title=\"Moti Leitner at the launch of the Haredi Public Party in Bet Shemesh, near Jerusalem, in August. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi\" alt=\"Moti Leitner at the launch of the Haredi Public Party in Bet Shemesh, near Jerusalem, in August.\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1603\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/183508-1.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz xt7dq6l x193iq5w xh8yej3\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Close<\/p>\n<p>Moti Leitner at the launch of the Haredi Public Party in Bet Shemesh, near Jerusalem, in August. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi<\/p>\n<p>Moti Leitner at the launch of the Haredi Public Party in Bet Shemesh, near Jerusalem, in August. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Civil Election Guard, an organization deploying more than 20,000 observers at polling stations nationwide, reported a series of disruptions and the removal or concealment of ballot slips for the Haredi Public party in ultra-Orthodox communities.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The Haredi Public seeks to offer an alternative to the established ultra-Orthodox parties, United Torah Judaism and Shas. The party is not expected to cross the electoral threshold, according to recent polls.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">According to the organization, 23 incidents were recorded at 20 different polling stations in Modi&#8217;in Ilit, Bnei Brak and Jerusalem between 7:56 A.M. and 2:07 P.M. Entire stacks of the party&#8217;s ballot slips were taken from voting booths or hidden beneath those of other parties, sometimes repeatedly at the same locations.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">In Modi&#8217;in Ilit, observers reported that an entire stack of ballots disappeared within seconds. In Bnei Brak, a voting booth was found to have no ballot slips for the party while voters were casting their ballots. The organization said seven incidents occurred within just 13 minutes, between 1:54 P.M. and 2:07 P.M., and that these incidents were reported to the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Close Moti Leitner at the launch of the Haredi Public Party in Bet Shemesh, near Jerusalem, in August.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,58195,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-658679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658679","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=658679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}