In the 2015 election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used scare tactics to motivate his supporters to the polls. “The right-wing government is in danger,” he claimed. “Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves,” he said on election day. In the 2019 election, Netanyahu and the Likud tried to scare Arab voters by means of an apparently criminal scheme of planting 1,300 hidden cameras at polling sites in Arab areas to deter them from practicing their basic civic right — voting. 

The day after this year's election, held April 9, the public relations firm Kaizler Inbar, which worked for the Likud, revealed the party's “secret plan” and bragged that it had been “closely followed by the prime minister and Minister Yariv Levin.” The firm’s directors described the plan in a boastful post:

Don’t tell anyone. It was us. Did you see the reports in the media that fired up the field on election day? The ones that spoke of cameras planted at polling sites in the Arab sector that prevented thousands of false votes? If so, we are ‘to blame’ for this move. After a long preparation period, an amazing logistical arrangement, and deep and close cooperation with the best people in Likud, we launched an operation that decisively contributed to one of the most important achievements in the national [right-wing] camp.… Because we put our observers at every poll, the voting rate was lower than 50%, the lowest in recent years … This is where we should give huge thanks to 1,350 field workers, activists of all ages and colors, from Eilat in the south to Hisfin in the north, who were present at polling sites all over the country, from the smallest villages to the largest Arab cities. 

Thus, it is clear that the goal was to scare Arab voters so that they wouldn't go to their polling stations and endanger the continuation of Netanyahu’s grip on power. The self-satisfied public relations directors even added an updated photo of themselves with Netanyahu and his wife, Sara.