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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

2024 Israeli municipal elections

Kiryat Shmona mayoral candidate Eli Zafrani (left) speaks with two residents of the city outside his campaign HQ on election day, February 18, 2025 (Shalom Yerushalmi/Times of Israel)
February 19, 2025, 4:25 pm
In Kiryat Shmona, a city with no residents holds elections with no voters
Mayoral race, delayed for 15 months due to the war, takes place with almost 80% of northern border city’s uprooted residents scattered across Israel. Many of them won’t return
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Shmuel Greenberg, left, speaks to supporters at his election headquarters during the second round of Municipal Elections, in Beit Shemesh, March 10, 2024. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)
March 11, 2024, 1:34 pm
Ultra-Orthodox retake Beit Shemesh, former Haifa mayor Yona Yahav returns to office
46.1% of eligible voters cast ballots in run-off elections across the country; right-wing candidate Matan Dil wins in Rehovot, former MK Oren Hazan trounced in Ariel
By Sam Sokol
Beit Shemesh mayoral candidate Shmuel Greenberg casts his ballot in the second round of municipal elections, March 10, 2024. (Sam Sokol)
March 10, 2024, 3:34 pm
Voters go to polls across Israel in second round of municipal elections
Run-offs underway in Ariel, Beit Shemesh, Abu Ghosh, Haifa and 31 other cities and villages where no candidate managed to reach 40% in last month’s first round
By Sam Sokol
A woman votes in the municipal elections in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2024 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
March 8, 2024, 8:18 am
Second round of municipal elections set for Sunday in 35 locales
Mayoral run-off votes to be held in those cities and towns where no candidate received 40%, including Haifa, Beit Shemesh, Ariel, Rehovot and Ramle
By Sam Sokol
Shas chairman Aryeh Deri speaks during an event of the Shas party ahead of the municipal elections in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
February 29, 2024, 5:00 pm
In first, ultra-Orthodox parties win majority on Jerusalem city council
‘We don’t want to turn Jerusalem into Bnei Brak,’ says Deputy Mayor Eliezer Rauchberger, adding ‘we’re here to demand our share’ in an equitable manner
By Sam Sokol
Sheila Weinberg, the first transgender Israeli to be elected to a city council. (LinkedIn: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 29, 2024, 12:09 pm
In Kiryat Tivon, residents elect Israel’s first transgender city councilor
‘I want an equal place at the table,’ says long-time activist Sheila Weinberg; LGBTQ rights group thanks her for ‘breaking the glass walls for all of us’
By Sam Sokol
Ballots ahead of the Jerusalem municipal elections, at a warehouse in Jerusalem on February 22, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 29, 2024, 10:27 am
Despite spin, municipal elections unlikely to predict national political trends
Parties across the spectrum rush to boast of ‘growing power,’ but experts say few conclusions can be drawn nationally: ‘At the end of the day, local politics is local politics’
By Sam Sokol
Israeli families enjoy a music headphone party at the TLV fashion mall in Tel Aviv during municipal election day on February 27, 2024. (Courtesy)
February 28, 2024, 7:16 pm
Though voter turnout low, Israelis flock to malls on municipal election holiday
Shoppers hit the stores and cafes, spending NIS 1.577 billion via credit card transactions, an increase of more than 24% compared to last election day in November 2022
By Sharon Wrobel
This handout photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on February 27, 2024, shows soldiers casting their municipal elections ballots at a polling site in the Gaza Strip, amid the war there against Hamas. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 28, 2024, 4:41 pm
Half of Israel stays away from democracy * Friction helps Biden and the PM * SIMs signs
In an Israel grappling with the trauma of Oct. 7 and the war, it is understandable that local elections were not a priority. But it’s a shame, nonetheless, that so many didn’t vote
By David Horovitz
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion speaks to the media after winning a second term in office, Jerusalem, early on February 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 28, 2024, 10:58 am
Jerusalem’s Moshe Lion, Tel Aviv’s Ron Huldai cruise to victory in mayoral races
As election results roll in, Holon’s veteran mayor loses seat after 30 years while Beit Shemesh and Haifa will go to run-off races after no winners emerge
By ToI Staff
Ron Kobi, holding cellphone, visits a balloting station in Tiberias on February 27, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
February 28, 2024, 2:59 am
In Tiberias, Haredi locals cheer for defeat of their secularist nemesis’s comeback bid
Exit polls indicate former mayor Ron Kobi lost race to candidate endorsed by influential ultra-Orthodox rabbis, in microcosm of Israel’s religious-secular divisions
By Canaan Lidor
Israelis cast their votes at a voting station on the morning of the Municipal Elections, in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 27, 2024, 8:15 pm
Voter turnout suffers as many stay home for municipal elections amid Gaza war
49.5% of eligible voters cast ballots after months of delay despite rocket fire and scattered violence; Jerusalem mayor claims victory, Tel Aviv’s Huldai appears set to retain power
By Sam Sokol
This handout photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on February 27, 2024, shows soldiers casting their municipal elections ballots at a polling site in the Gaza Strip, amid the war there against Hamas. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 27, 2024, 9:30 am
Israelis vote in most of country for twice-delayed local elections under shadow of war
Elections for cities, towns, regional councils held amid Hamas war, conflict in north; extra absentee ballots mean results only likely Wed.; in some border areas, no vote till Nov.
By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff
Malka Greenblatt (courtesy).
February 26, 2024, 10:20 pm
Meet the Haredi entrepreneur running for a historic seat on the Jerusalem city council
Malka Greenblatt, who ‘hates politics but loves getting things done,’ will be the first ultra-Orthodox woman to serve on the council if elected on Tuesday
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Residents of the mixed Modern Orthodox-Haredi neighborhood of Ramat Beit Shemesh Aleph on April 27, 2020. (Sam Sokol)
February 26, 2024, 4:43 pm
In Beit Shemesh election, the ultra-Orthodox are looking to regain power
Religious conflict no longer solely defines the city’s politics but some worry that a victory for Shas’s Moshe Abutbul could spell a return to the violence of his last term
By Sam Sokol
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