Central Elections Committee Orders Shas to Remove Election Video Featuring IDF Soldier
Translated & summarized from Ynet by baba
Israel's Central Elections Committee ordered the Shas party to remove a campaign video featuring an IDF soldier, citing violations of election propaganda rules.
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- The Central Elections Committee ordered Shas to remove an election video featuring an IDF soldier.
- The video showed a soldier thanking his brother and claimed over 30,000 soldiers voted for Shas.
- The Yashar! party filed a complaint citing election propaganda violations.
- Judge Noam Solberg ruled the complaint had merit and issued an interim removal order.
- The violations involved using the IDF in campaign material and premature use of party list letters.
The chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Judge Noam Solberg, has instructed the Shas party and its leader Aryeh Deri to remove an election campaign video published the previous evening. The video showed a soldier returning home for a Sabbath blessing and thanking his brother, a Torah scholar, with the phrase "Thank you for learning Torah." It also claimed that over 30,000 soldiers and career military personnel voted for Shas in the last elections. The party Yashar! filed a complaint, arguing that the video violated prohibitions against using the Israel Defense Forces in election propaganda and against using party list letters before the 42nd day prior to elections. Judge Solberg ruled that the chances of the petition succeeding regarding these two prohibitions justified issuing the requested interim order to remove the video.
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