The Likud primaries: By 6:30 p.m. (Monday), 361,331 Likud members had exercised their right to vote. This is 51,453 Likud members who voted.
• New Likud MKs and candidates who won the support of independent voters in the primaries expressed concern over the low turnout so far in the primary elections.
Those candidates said that the low voter turnout could serve the party's deal-makers, who are driving voters to the polls in an organized manner, and that this could lead to the election of a list similar to the one in the current Knesset.
• Polls across the country opened at 10:00 AM and are expected to close at 9:00 PM.
• Jerusalem recorded the highest number of voters among the polling stations: by 12:15, 564 people had voted.
• Yoni Yosef, grandson of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and former Jerusalem City Council member, announced the withdrawal of his candidacy. Yosef transferred his support to Attorney Yair Gabbay, the Likud candidate in the Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and Shephelah districts.
• MK Tali Gottlieb claimed during the vote that some polling stations had forms that did not include her name. "For the information of Likud voters! There are polling stations with fake forms without my name! Be vigilant," she wrote.
Gottlieb added: "Likud operatives and vote-buyers are hysterical about the power of free votes. Keep me informed directly. A ballot with a fake form will be invalidated.".
• According to a report by Daniel Grubeis in 'Kan News', ultra-Orthodox residents at the Elad polling station covered up pictures of a female candidate in the primaries and clashed with activists.
In addition, they demanded that party activists leave the venue for reasons of modesty.
• The president of the Likud's court of appeal, Michael Kleiner, told Knesset News: "The court contributed to the fact that the elections will be held and that there will be no organizing committee. I think these elections will be the turning point from which the Likud will begin to take off. The good news is that we are faced with three hologram parties, many of which have no court of appeal and no primaries. Apart from the Democratic Party, which is truly democratic, there is no other people's party.".
