Voting among IDF soldiers reaches 44% by 1. p.m.

By Emanuel Fabian

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1 November 2022, 3:31 pm

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Israeli soldiers arrive with election equipment to facilitate early voting for military members in the Israeli general elections, at the Har Dov military base on Mount Hermon on the Golan Heights on October 31, 2022. (Photo by JALAA MAREY / AFP)

The voting turnout among Israeli soldiers has reached 44% as of 1 p.m., according to data from the Israel Defense Forces.

IDF soldiers are voting at 710 stations in military bases and posts across the country, from the northernmost at the Astra observation post atop Mount Hermon, to the southernmost at the Taba post, near the border crossing with Egypt.

Around 22 percent of the stations, in more remote locations, were opened early, allowing for some soldiers to begin to vote as early as Sunday.

The IDF says that some 29% of soldiers are voting for the first time. Israeli soldiers are drafted from age 18, which is also the minimum age to be eligible to vote.