Eisenkot urges the Israelis to overthrow the “worst government” in the country’s history

Gadi Eisenkot, the main competitor of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the current elections, on Tuesday urged voters to work to bring down what he considered “the worst government” in Israel’s history.

Eisenkot, leader of the “Yashar” or “Mustaqim” party, said: “I call on all citizens of Israel to go to vote, not to give in to pressure or unrest, and to stick to the goal; Changing the worst government since the establishment of the state, tonight.

Today, Eisenkot cast his vote in close elections. After casting his vote, Eisenkot stood among a crowd of supporters and pointed out that victory was not guaranteed, adding: “We are facing perhaps the most important days since the founding of the state.”

For its part, the Yashar Party, led by Eisenkot, stated that it had filed an urgent complaint regarding nine incidents in which the party’s voting papers had disappeared, been damaged, or were placed upside down inside voting booths, hinting at the possibility of a “systematic and deliberate” sabotage attempt.

In turn, Acting Director General of the Election Commission, Dean Livni, said that the number of reports related to irregularities or problems in polling stations was much lower than what was recorded in the previous elections.

Today (Tuesday), when casting his vote in the legislative elections in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Israelis to vote “correctly,” in light of the intense competition.

“This is a very poignant and fateful moment,” Netanyahu said. My wife and I are really touched. We realize the scale of the stakes, and because I cannot state things directly, I will only say: Vote correctly.

After casting his vote, Netanyahu attacked the Arab parties in Israel, warning that they were “trying to steal the elections.” Netanyahu said that three prominent officials in an Israeli Arab party were arrested in the south of the country, with envelopes full of money in their possession.

But electoral authorities explained that these people “had not yet arrived at the polling stations,” and that they were arrested near their homes, and that the case is still under investigation. As for the Central Elections Commission, it confirmed that “this is a case limited to a specific area.”

Israelis are flocking in large numbers to polling stations in the legislative elections, which are witnessing a close match according to opinion polls, amid divisions over the fate of Netanyahu's political life and the rise of Israel's right-wing orientation.

Reuters reported from official media on Tuesday that the Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, met with Iranian Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not appeared in public since he took power to succeed his father, Ali Khamenei.

The media confirmed that Mojtaba stressed during his meeting with Rezaei the importance of pursuing Iran’s interests and implementing its conditions with the aim of ending the war and ending “the situation of no war and no peace.”

Mojtaba Khamenei has not appeared in public since he was chosen as guide on March 8, succeeding his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the first American-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28.

US President Donald Trump said that he did not prefer the short-term ceasefire with Iran, which his administration reached in June.

He added that he considered the agreement “a kind of waste of time.”