Israel postpones municipal elections till Feb. 27
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli government has decided to postpone municipal elections to February 27, according to local media.
The polls were originally scheduled for January 30.
Military data shows that 688 candidates for 144 cities and towns are currently serving in army reserves and could not be spared for elections.
“We usually do not hold elections in wartime but these elections were set in advance,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a cabinet meeting.
“My recommendation is clear: to do this at the end of February to enable as many reservists as possible to participate in the elections. This is an elementary and important right,” he added.
This was the second time for the local polls to be postponed.
The elections were originally scheduled for the end of October but were put on hold for three months amid an Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip since October 7.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip from the air and ground since October 7, killing nearly 22,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 56,451 others, according to health authorities in the enclave.
The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure damaged or destroyed, and nearly 2 million residents displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine.
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