Coalition said considering legal fight over ban on parties tracking who’s voted

By Sam Sokol 4 August 2026, 7:40 pm

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Sam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"

Workers prepare ballot boxes for the upcoming Israeli elections, at the Central Elections Committee warehouse in Shoham, before they are shipped to polling stations, October 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition is considering petitioning the High Court of Justice against Central Elections Committee chairman Noam Sohlberg’s decision to ban polling station workers and party observers from sharing information about who has voted, Channel 13 reports.

Sohlberg is also the deputy president of the High Court of Justice.

In a statement, the committee argued that “election laws do not authorize party representatives to transfer this information for the purpose of party activity, and in the absence of express authorization the transfer of information is prohibited.”

Speaking with Channel 13, a senior Likud official called the ruling a “targeted elimination of the right-wing.”