Feiglin demands election freeze pending Shin Bet fraud probe

Zehut party chairman and MK-designate Moshe Feiglin sent an urgent and unprecedented letter in recent minutes to Central Elections Committee chairman, Supreme Court Justice Noam Solberg, demanding an immediate halt to publication and certification of final results, and that no facts be established on the ground while the Shin Bet investigation ordered by the committee is still underway.

According to Feiglin, this is not an isolated incident that can be dismissed by disqualifying one ballot box or another, but rather suspicion of a severe blow to the sovereignty of the state: "The Elections Committee's decision to instruct the Shin Bet to investigate the suspicions is proof that a heavy shadow hangs over the true results. At a time when the General Security Service is investigating an assault on Israel's sovereignty, the committee's immediate duty is to announce: no result is approved, everything is frozen until the investigation is exhausted."

Unprecedented volume of complaints (From Feiglin's letter)

In his letter, Feiglin reveals a difficult web of testimony from election integrity monitors and secretaries who were abandoned in the field under threats and real fear of lynching, and presents a broad evidentiary infrastructure based on data from the election integrity headquarters.

Alongside this, Feiglin demands an investigation into who stands behind the scandalous directive issued by the committee's director-general during election day "to ensure there is no overload", a directive that in practice served as permission to cut corners, to forgo strict identity checks, and to turn polling stations into an assembly line devoid of oversight.

Feiglin makes clear in his letter to Justice Solberg: "If the suspicions are confirmed, we will not settle for disqualifying this or that ballot box. Elections that have been tainted must be annulled entirely, and we must immediately proceed to a new snap election campaign. The repeat elections will be held only under close and full supervision of police forces, Border Police and polling committee representatives, who will not allow anyone to terrorize or act violently toward its members, so that no one can steal even a quarter of a vote from the people of Israel. The Knesset of Israel will not be founded on sin."