Haifa with the lowest voting percentage in the big cities - only 28.76% - Yahav won by a significant margin • In Carmel Castle 56.5% of the residents voted, which resulted in the victory of Dodo Cohen
(live here) – The turnout in the first round of elections in Haifa was 38.7%, low compared to the turnout in the previous elections. In the second round, the percentage of voters was even lower and reached 28.76%. In Carmel Castle, 56.5% of those with the right to vote came out, choosing Dodo Cohen as the new mayor.
Yahav returns for a fourth term
The second round of local elections in Haifa was tense, with particularly low turnout. Until the polls closed, the voting percentage in Haifa reached only 28.76%. The data obtained from the 438 polling stations placed throughout the city announced that the one who was elected with the majority of votes, with 62.6% of the voters' votes, is Yona Yahav. Etzioni, on the other hand, finished the second round with only 37.4% of the Haifa votes.
High turnout in Carmel Castle 56.5%
In Carmel Castle, the percentage of voting in the second round dropped to 56.5% compared to 61.9% in the first round, a high percentage of voting compared to Haifa. The voting data obtained from 40 polling stations placed in the Carmel Castle announced that David Cohen was elected with a majority of votes and garnered 61.5% of the votes of the voters in the Carmel Castle Eli Cohen received only 38.5%.
The original article was published on Sunday 10/3/24
Hours to decide: Etzioni or Yahav - who will be the next mayor of Haifa?
(live here) – The percentage of voting in the first round of the elections in Haifa was 38.7%, low compared to the percentage of voting in the previous elections. What will be the percentage of Haifa voters in the second round and how will the Haifa votes be divided between the two contestants? Last hours until the decision.
The second round of local elections began at noon today (Sunday 10/3/24, 13:00 p.m.) in 14% of the local authorities in Israel, those that did not reach a decision in the first round, which was held on 27/2/24, including the city of Haifa.
The national turnout in the local authority elections in the first round, as of the closing of the polls, was about 49%, which is about 3,5 million voters out of all those with the right to vote.
The percentage of voting in Haifa, one of the five largest municipalities in Israel, was 38.7%, which placed it in fourth place in terms of percentage of voting among the five largest municipalities, one place ahead of the last ranked city - Jerusalem, where the percentage of voting was 30.8% - the lowest, as mentioned, Of the five.
In the second round, they face each other - Yona Yahav, who won 36.3% of the votes of the Haifa voters in the first round, alongside David Etzioni, who won in the previous round with 21.9% of the votes. Immediately after the end of the first round and the publication of the data, a marathon of alliances and support of candidates who lost the race as well as of factions that ran in the city council elections began.
The first to announce his support for Lihav was Avihu Han, chairman of the Greens - Blue and White, who himself ran for mayor. After him, attorney Sharit Golan Steinberg joined Lihav, she also ran for mayor along with the 'Haifa for us' faction, which she heads.
Yahav continued to grow stronger, when other supporters announced that they were joining him - Yossi Shalom and 'Tzeiri and Haifa', Zvika Barbie and 'I care about the residents of Haifa', Kirel Kartnik and the 'I live here' faction. They were joined in support of Yahav by the retirees' faction, the Meretz list, the Hadash list, as well as two members of the 'Connected to Haifa and Kiryat Haim' faction led by Borovsky, who left the faction and announced their support for Yahav.
David Etzioni won the support of Yaakov Shtrit, the chairman of 'The Resident in the Center', and Etzioni also received the support of Yaakov Burevsky, who joined him after he also ran, as I recall, for mayor.
In the Carmel Castle, the second round of the mayoral elections is now being held, in which the candidates are competing for the position - Dodo Cohen, who won 36.8% of the votes cast in the Carmel Castle, and Eli Cohen, who won 31.5% of the votes.
Congratulations to Yona Yahav, who was accepted to an Achala job with a resume that convinced 18 percent of voters from the residents of Haifa. PS: There is already a Yona village in Israel
Not sure I understood, could it be with a little more exclamation marks?
Good luck to whoever chooses
We must save Haifa from the clutches of Hadash and Raja Zaatara - to whom Yahav is a member.
Instead of becoming disillusioned after Wall Guard and the October events, instead of worrying about the security of Haifa (which includes the refineries) when the threats from the north are increasing, Yahav wants to give power to anti-Zionist elements, supporters of BDS (Boycott Headquarters 48).
We all understand that it is unimportant. Yahav sat with the ultra-Orthodox. Etzioni sat with Hadash. Everyone sat with everyone else, laughing at you with slogans and cars with rattles like herds that the piper from Melin smiles at and drives them away.
Yahav failed and destructive, Etzioni failed and destructive. It's young, it's old, all of them together will increase our property tax as much as possible to take care of another maid, another English course, another trip to a twin city, more paid assistants, more travel expenses and as many unnecessary associates in the wings.
The coalition system collapsed in on itself and brought dysfunctional government bodies full of failed businessmen with pockets of stinking capital and squeeze-as-you-can-someone-else-will-pay sectors.
Haifa is going to triple paralysis: paralysis from a failed leadership that proved incompetent in the previous terms and was not replaced,
Paralysis from the security situation in the north that will also drive away investors and an urban situation of rampant sectors and crime that will drive away from it
A strong population for homogeneous cities and small towns will leave here elderly neighborhoods with waves of crime, violence and burglaries.
This is the Haifa you chose - this is what you will get.
After watching the video yesterday in which Ayman Odeh calls to vote for Yona Yahav, I realized that we do not have the privilege in this city to remain indifferent and I decided to vote for David Etzioni.
Good luck to Haifa
Etzioni proved to all of us as residents of Haifa that he is completely unreliable!
Furthermore, none of us will forget that in the last elections, when he felt that he was not going to win the mayorship, and Einat Kalish did win, the unstable David Etzioni suddenly decided to change his line and joined Einat Kalish. In his act, he betrayed all those that I sacrificed for him. !
David Etzioni blackened the face of the city in the last elections with many lies and distortions, and in his attempts to blacken the face of Yona Yahav who did a lot for our Haifa city!
We are all fed up with all the promises that have no cover and thus once again David Etzioni brought upon himself unreliability and shame for the entire election class!
We will all vote today only for Yona Yahav, and I am sure that Yona's success will bring real change to Haifa in all respects, and everything is for the benefit of all of us!!!!