Noam Sohlberg ordered Shas to remove the propaganda video
Chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Judge Noam Sohlberg, instructed today (Sunday) the Shas party and its chairman, MK Aryeh Deri, to remove an election propaganda video they published on social networks, after concerns arose…
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Israel's Central Elections Committee chair has ordered Shas to take down a campaign video that appeared to feature a soldier in uniform , a violation of the rule barring military imagery from election propaganda. The concern is that showing a religious soldier heading home for Shabbat, with text claiming 30,000 soldiers voted Shas last time, could imply the IDF endorses a specific party. The petition came from Yisrael La'Yisrael with Eizenkot, a new party. Watch whether Shas complies quickly or challenges the order, and whether this ruling sets a tighter precedent for how parties can reference military service in ads.