Election Committee Chair Orders Smotrich to Remove Video Featuring Children from Social Media

Noam Solberg, chair of Israel's Central Election Committee, issued a temporary order requiring Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and his party to remove a video from their social media accounts. The video, published the previous evening, showed two young girls discussing how one girl's father had not been called for reserve duty in a year, attributing this to Smotrich. The nonprofit organization "Choosing in Israel" petitioned against the video, arguing that it violated the prohibition on involving children in election propaganda. The order aims to enforce election regulations protecting minors from political campaigning.