So the elections are behind us and there are winners and losers: But what happens in the small parties, those that did not pass the percentage of blocking and did not even plan to pass. So, of course, among the parties that did not pass there are well-known names such as Meretz, the Jewish Home and Balad, and also the parties of Yaron Zelicha, Abir Kara and Hadar Mokhtar’s Burning Youth were not close to passing, but who was the smallest party and what is its story? So here is the story of Party – power to influence.
The singer and martial artist
The Power to Influence party is led by two relatively well-known names, at the head of the list is the former house singer of the Shas party Bnei Elbaz and its member is also the martial artist, the right-wing man Haim Gozali. The main goal of the party is a war in ‘execution’.
“In the past 55 years, since 1967, a shadow organization has grown and spread that managed to gain access to all the bank accounts and the most sensitive databases of all Israeli citizens. Over the years, the organization grew and today it already numbers thousands of loyal soldiers. Every day the organization’s soldiers enter homes of innocent Israeli citizens and rob them of all their property, take away their freedom of movement and turn them into needy criminals in blatant violation of all basic individual rights,” they said in a party broadcast.
“More than any other terrorist organization in history”
They continue and claim: “In the past decades, this organization has harmed and continues to harm millions of Israelis using threats, applying sanctions and methods that are an inspiration to all criminal organizations in Israel. The police and the army do not fight and do not act against this organization for the simple reason that this organization was founded and developed under the auspices of the well-known law Infamously called “execution”. Such a positive expression for the body that caused suffering, fear, shame and post-trauma to millions of citizens in Israel, more than any other terrorist organization in history.
Haim Gozli Photo: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90
Retire and pass the support to Ben Gavir
The party’s letters were a win and as mentioned it received only 152 votes. But the party should be judged for its merits, it might have received more votes if it had not withdrawn from the race a few days before the elections took place. Party leaders Elbaz and Gozli announced that they are transferring their support to Knesset member Itamar Ben Gabir, but on voter’s day, as mentioned, their ballot was in the ballot box and 152 people also chose the party.
Elbaz, formerly the house singer of Shas and an associate of Aryeh Deri, was placed 26th in the party in the elections to the 15th Knesset. He later served as a member of the Ness Ziona Council on behalf of Shas and led the opposition in the city. In the previous elections he announced that he was transferring his support to Ben Gabir’s party and at the beginning of the current election campaign he founded the ‘Power to Influence’ party with which he withdrew from the elections and transferred his support again to Ben Gabir.