Young Israelis preparing to vote in parliamentary elections on Tuesday are leaning further to the right than their elders, with some drawn to the far right and its focus on security. In Rehovot, a city whose results tend to mirror the national vote, RFI met a generation shaped by the attacks of 7 October, 2023 and three years of war.
Some 600,000 Israelis will be eligible to vote for the first time at Tuesday's election, and a September poll of Jewish first-time voters in the country aged 18-22 found that 74 percent identified as right-wing or centre-right voters, compared with 67 percent of the wider Jewish adult population.
