Election Committee Rejects Bid to Bar Far-Right Party Otzma Yehudit
The Central Elections Committee continued its deliberations on Thursday, for the second consecutive day, to review petitions seeking to disqualify Knesset candidates and slates for the 26th Knesset. Presiding over the sessions was Judge Noam Sohlberg.
The committee discussed requests to exclude the "Otzma Yehudit" (Jewish Strength) party, the Religious Zionism party, "Zehut" (Identity), and the "Democrats" party from participating in the elections. Specifically, a request to disqualify Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and the "Otzma Yehudit" party was put to a vote.
The committee ultimately rejected the petition to disqualify "Otzma Yehudit" and prevent them from running in the elections. The vote was 19 in favor of allowing the party to run and 10 against.
The original headline's implication that the committee discussed disqualifying "Democrats" and that the committee's decision was related to the slogan "Democracy for Jews Only" is not explicitly supported by the body of the article, which focuses on the rejection of the petition against Otzma Yehudit.
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