A special survey by Ulpan Shishi, conducted among young people aged 18-25, revealed that in the young people's vote, Netanyahu's bloc reaches 71 seats.
Former IDF spokesman Ronen Manelis spoke with Ben Caspit and Yinon Magal on 103FM about the survey: "How can it be that among young people, 18 to 25, the Rising Force, the second largest party, is a party whose numbers among young people are greater than the usual characteristics of those whom this party has targeted in the past?""
""Guardian of the Walls is a super serious event, in which all of Israel's residents were exposed to a phenomenon that was only known in the periphery. The loss of governance was not experienced in the center as it was in the periphery, and Guardian of the Walls puts it on the front line of the state. Then comes Itamar Ben-Gvir, when the state for many, many years - no matter who is in power - has failed to deal with governance. And with a series of slogans, which clearly will not happen, (Ben-Gvir) manages to cut off audiences.
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""What is cutting audiences? It's bringing in voters who are not Itamar Ben-Gvir's usual voters," Manelis continued. "These are people who are not necessarily interested in what's happening in Judea and Samaria, who are not that interested in what he thinks about the Palestinians, I'm not sure they're even religious, as you call them, but they found easy solutions in him, and then you see him going up. People who voted for Likud, Yamina, for years, and suddenly they say Ben-Gvir.".
According to him, "How can there still be a situation where a person who is not what you call 'my faith' lives his life quietly and peacefully - reaches a point where he says, 'I'm going to vote for Itamar Ben-Gvir's solutions.' There is something deep here, it's not just demographics. How does Ben-Gvir manage to bring in seats from the United Torah Judaism (United Torah Judaism)? These are people who get up in the morning and vote for what the rabbi said. There is a profound phenomenon here.".
""I think that the fact that young people between the ages of 18 and 25 have voted five or four times already means that you are also disappointed in who you voted for. I argue that there is also an interest on the other side here, of explaining to voters, no matter where they are, that his messages are imaginary. Writing a series of slanders about the Minister of Defense claiming that he (Gantz) almost needs to be arrested for terrorism, according to Ben Gvir's sentences - it is an absurd situation where a person in Israel says, 'I will vote for this person.' I can't understand why everything becomes downright racist.
""I don't know what I should say anymore. Am I from the periphery, not from the periphery? Is my family from the periphery or not from the periphery? Am I the first generation in Israel of immigrants who served time in prison for immigrating to the country? What should I say so that I can have a substantive discussion with you?""
