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Israelis abroad flock home for 'most important election we've ever had' ->The Christian Science Monitor | More on "Israeli election participation and democracy" at BigEarthData.ai | #Election #Democracy

csmonitor.comIsraelis abroad flock home for 'most important election we've ever had'To cast a ballot in Israel’s pivotal elections Tuesday, Shai Schoenfeld had to fly home. But unlike most Israeli expatriates, his return voyage was a 10,000-mile, 30-plus-hour odyssey from a remote sheep station in the Australian outback to his village in the Galilee, in northern Israel. His transit from Down Under put him in rare company among the tens of thousands of Israelis returning to the country from around the globe to vote in parliamentary elections widely regarded as critical for the Jewish state’s future. “I’m doing this 99% out of fear,” says the 20-something Mr. Schoenfeld, who will be participating in his second national election. It is “probably the most important election we’ve ever had as a country.” The length of his travels is a barometer for the importance he places on this election. From the ranch near Tarcoola, in southern Australia, where he’d been working in recent months, he drove eight hours to the southern city of Adelaide to catch a two-hour flight to Sydney. There he boarded a 14.5-hour flight to Abu Dhabi and then another three-hour flight to Tel Aviv, before driving two hours home to the village of Kfar Hananya. “The whole world is about...

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