With fewer than five hours to go before polls close, Yamina was outraged on Tuesday over what they called a "gevald" (scare) campaign by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bolster the Religious Zionist Party at Yamina's expense.
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Yamina was responding to a mass text messaging campaign by the Likud, calling to vote for the Religious Zionist Party, which has been hovering near the minimum electoral threshold of 3.25% in polls. The message encouraged undecided voters to support the Religious Zionist Party, rather than the Likud.
Yamina leader Naftali Bennett said in a Twitter response: "Don't allow Bibi to fool you again. In an attempt to weaken us, he is once again spreading the complete lie that the Smotrich-Ben-Gvir-Noam party is in danger. Completely fake. Bibi is doing it just because he wants a submissive Right in his pocket."
In the last polls before the election, published Friday, Bezalel Smotrich's list was projected to make it over the minimum threshold and win four to five seats. Still, Netanyahu is concerned that the party will not make it over the minimum threshold, which would seriously hurt his chances of securing the 61 seats he needs to build a stable coalition.
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