A left-wing effort to fly tens of thousands of overseas voters to Israel for upcoming elections is drawing fire after a senior leftist political party official let slip the operation’s real goal.
Avi Dabush, a senior figure in Israel’s Democrats Party, discussed the so-called Aid Coalition’s planned airlift and said the aim is to bring “the right kind of voters”—a comment that exposes this isn’t a nonpartisan “get-out-the-vote” drive but a targeted political operation.
Aid Coalition, linked to the Brothers in Arms protest movement and the Kaplan demonstrations, is working to charter hundreds of planes from the U.S. and Europe to fly in tens of thousands of eligible voters. While the operation is publicly framed as open to all Israelis, Dabush’s remarks reveal the true intention—a massive effort to boost opposition parties.
Following the revelations, Likud sent an urgent letter to Central Elections Committee Chairman Judge Noam Sohlberg demanding an investigation. “There is urgency and supreme importance to take all necessary early investigative and enforcement measures to obtain a clear and unequivocal answer to this question, so that the answer is not delivered on election day itself,” the letter states.
This effort follows an earlier report in which a senior Brothers in Arms official was caught on tape saying the group plans to deploy “challengers” at polling stations—former special forces and combat unit veterans—raising additional concerns about organized interference on election day.