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How much are Israel's elections costing it?

With only about 70% of Israelis bothering to vote, maybe it's time to reconsider election day being a national holiday and therefore a paid vacation day for workers.
A man holds prayer beads while casting his ballot as Israelis began voting in a parliamentary election, at a polling station in the Bedouin city of Rahat in Israel's southern Negev Desert April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC1EA7EA6CE0
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The law proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud for placing cameras in polling stations in Arab communities fell as fast as it was proposed on Sept. 9. Despite its short life, it raised, in a roundabout way, another important issue: the cost of the election to the Israeli market and its ramifications for the Israeli economy.

A senior official at the Ministry of Economy and Industry who is involved in economic planning and who spoke to Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity said, “Politicians on all sides should get this. If, God forbid, they won’t succeed in forming a government, and there would be a third election, the Israeli economy would enter a serious, catastrophic crisis, from which it would be very hard to recover.” 

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