Gadi Eisenkot Files Complaint Against Smotrich Over Use of Children in Campaign Video
Translated & summarized from Srugim by baba
Gadi Eisenkot's party Yashar! petitioned Israel's Central Elections Committee to remove a campaign video by Bezalel Smotrich's party, accusing it of illegal use of children and misleading content about reservist support. The petition claims Smotrich promotes draft exemptions harming the IDF and misrepresents Religious Zionist values.
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- Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar! party filed a petition against Bezalel Smotrich's campaign video.
- The video allegedly uses children illegally under Israel's 1959 Elections Law.
- Yashar! claims the video falsely portrays Smotrich as supporting reservists.
- Smotrich is accused of promoting ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions harming the IDF.
- Yashar! demanded the video's removal by 4 p.m. before further legal steps.
- The petition argues Smotrich misrepresents true Religious Zionist values.
Gadi Eisenkot's party, Yashar!, filed a petition on Thursday with the chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Judge Noam Solberg, demanding that Minister Bezalel Smotrich and the Religious Zionist Party remove a campaign video posted on Smotrich's X account titled "Bringing Reservists Home." The petition, submitted by attorney Uri Haberman, argues that the video unlawfully uses children in violation of Section 2C of the 1959 Elections Law concerning campaign methods.
Yashar! also contends that the video should have been labeled as AI-generated content because it portrays Smotrich as supporting reservists, while Yashar! claims Smotrich has actually promoted legislation enabling ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions, harming the IDF and Israel's security. The party emphasized that true Religious Zionism upholds values of service and shared burden, and accused Smotrich of encouraging draft evasion and undermining reservists, thus misrepresenting those values.
Yashar! demanded the video's removal by 4 p.m. on the day of the petition and indicated this was an initial step before pursuing further legal action. The full petition was attached to the submission.
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