Fight for mandates The elections in Israel were not without a classic: in the Bedouin city of Rahat in the south of the country, the ballot box became a ring. Photographs from the Internet show how residents of the local community arrange things with their fists right next to the ballot box. For Rahat, this picture is not at all unique, since in the Bedouin cities in the Negev people are chosen according to clans. Roughly speaking, each influential family negotiates with the party for places on the list and future influence, and in return brings its people to the polls to vote as stated. Apparently now, the two families have been put on different lists, which means they can be attacked. Traditionally, the Bedouins in the Negev vote for Arab lists, and the city of Rahat is the "property" of the "Ra'am" party of Mansour Abbas, a native of these places. As we wrote recently, the party does not hesitate to play the Bedouin card: it saved the story of the missing tribe members in Egypt as an election winning card. So there is a fundamental struggle for votes here in every sense. The Arab population, unlike Netanyahu's "boogeymen", is extremely important to all Israeli politics - today it represents the fate of 14-15 seats in the parliament, which the ruling coalition and the opposition will have to take into account in order to form a future cabinet. - On the chaos in the Middle East with love support us.

Fight for mandates The elections in Israel were not without a classic: in the Bedouin city of Rahat in the south of the country, the ballot box became a ring. Photographs from the Internet show how residents of the local community arrange things with their fists right next to the ballot box. For Rahat, this picture is not at all unique, since in the Bedouin cities in the Negev people are chosen according to clans. Roughly speaking, each influential family negotiates with the party for places on the list and future influence, and in return brings its people to the polls to vote as stated. Apparently now, the two families have been put on different lists, which means they can be attacked. Traditionally, the Bedouins in the Negev vote for Arab lists, and the city of Rahat is the "property" of the "Ra'am" party of Mansour Abbas, a native of these places. As we wrote recently, the party does not hesitate to play the Bedouin card: it saved the story of the missing tribe members in Egypt as an election winning card. So there is a fundamental struggle for votes here in every sense. The Arab population, unlike Netanyahu's "boogeymen", is extremely important to all Israeli politics - today it represents the fate of 14-15 seats in the parliament, which the ruling coalition and the opposition will have to take into account in order to form a future cabinet. - On the chaos in the Middle East with love support us.