PM Netanyahu claims victory in Israeli election. Demotix/Dan Bar Dov. All rights reserved.A week before the election, I was asked to host a visit of several Labor Party candidates. This involved reserving our village meeting hall, setting up chairs, purchasing refreshments and so on. On the night of the event the crowd that attended was sparse, numbering at about 25 people. The candidates talked and after the meeting ended, I was left with two Zionist Union (Labor Party) posters. On the Sunday before election-Tuesday, I hung them up on fences at the entrance to our village and the village next door.
I had been asked to be the “house father” for the voting station in my village. In general, that meant I would be responsible for the physical elements of the voting station. So the day before the election, I found myself checking that the meeting hall, where the polling station was set up, had enough tables and chairs for the voting booth, ballot box and poll workers.
Finally on election day, I arrived at 7:00 AM, opened the doors, arranged the tables and helped the poll workers in posting signs to direct people and placards designating our meeting hall as one of several thousand places where the will of the Israeli citizenry could be expressed.
