Young Israeli voters lean right, as election puts Netanyahu to the test
France, Oct. 24 -- Some 600,000 Israelis will be eligible to vote for the first time at Tuesday's election, and a September poll of Jewish first-time voters in the country aged 18-22 found that 74 percent identified as right-wing or centre-right voters, compared with 67 percent of the wider Jewish adult population.
The election will determine the 120 members of the Knesset, Israel's parliament. Voters choose a party rather than individual candidates, with seats distributed in proportion to each party's share of the vote.
No single party has ever won a majority, so parties must team up to govern.
In Rehovot, a city of 140,000 people near Tel Aviv whose election results tend to mirror those of the country as a whole, RFI met young people...
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