Ben Gvir Says He Went Door to Door in Bat Yam to Urge Voting

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said on October 27 that he had gone to residents’ homes in Bat Yam to encourage them to vote. His message, posted at 17:01 Israel time, coupled the account of the door-to-door effort with another appeal for people to cast their ballots. “We went to wake up Bat Yam residents at home,” Ben Gvir wrote. The post followed a message at 16:35 in which he again urged people to vote. The Bat Yam account added a named location and a reported canvassing action to the afternoon’s appeals, without giving a count of homes visited or voters reached. Earlier, at 15:09, Ben Gvir had said people in Rahat were flocking to polling stations and called on his supporters to vote with ballot letter ב׳. That characterization of participation was his own claim. At 14:44, he had urged a vote with the same ballot letter and told supporters not to let their rivals celebrate at 22:00. The messages followed another post at 14:04 in which Ben Gvir said he was in Kafr Qasim and urged supporters not to let rivals win. His later Bat Yam message continued the same day’s turnout effort in a different city.