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:
