‘This is their last chance’: Israeli voters beg party leaders to end deadlock

‘For them, it’s a shameful game of musical seats in parliament. For us, it’s our lives’, voter tells Bel Trew and Shira Rubin

(AFP)

It took a minute for the memory to shuffle into place, but when it did, the young ultra-Orthodox voter from an Israeli settlement shook his head and laughed bitterly.

“It’s you again,” he said pointing a wad of campaign pamphlets. “So here we are, back here again, and nothing has changed.”

The Yeshiva – religious school – student stood in front of a poster for Shas, an ultra-Orthodox party that represents Israel’s Mizrahi communities, outside a school in Pisgat Ze’ev, a settlement town in occupied East Jerusalem.