The players are meeting to finalize their election lists for the election for 22nd Knesset, scheduled for Tuesday, September 17, 2019. The deadline for submitting the party lists is on Thursday, August 1, 2019, at 10:00PM. Lists must be submitted to the Central Election Committee by then.
Most of the lists do not have a chance of meeting the minimum electorate threshold to enter Knesset, as currently, there are 42 parties competing.
Among the parties registered are Likud, Meretz, Degel Hatorah, Agudas Yisrael, Blue & White, United Arab List, Yisrael Beitenu, Shas, Labor, Zehut, Noam, Democratic Israel, URWP, and Secular Right.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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42 parties have *not* registered for the election. That number that was obviously taken from the last election, in which 47 parties registered at first until several of them withdrew. It has nothing to do with the current one, and we have no way of knowing how many will register this time around.
No – in fact, only ten parties have submitted lists so far, and these include only two of the ones named in the article: Yisrael Beytenu and Zehut. None of the others have registered yet!
And that’s before you get to the complete mess that was made of cataloguing the competitors in the election, mixing the names of merged lists made up of multiple parties (like Blue & White or the URWP) with the names of individual parties running inside merged lists (like Noam or Agudat Yisrael). Either you write Blue & White and United Torah Judaism, which are the names of lists, or you write Degel Hatorah, Agudat Yisrael, Yesh Atid, and Israel Resilience, which are the names of the parties found inside the lists. Taking some from column A and some from column B is simply wrong.
This article was not only not informative, it was misinformative. The reporter simply made up everything they wrote in the second and third paragraphs!
Yerushami YW editors always make things up… thats why they dont give their names out