Secretary-general of Degel HaTorah, Rabbi Moshe Gafni, has
asked Ministry of the Interior elections commissioner,
attorney Ehud Shilat, to use the Jewish date in place of the
secular one for determining voter eligibility in the upcoming
Knesset elections.
Rabbi Gafni told the commissioner that many voters who intend
to participate in the upcoming elections on the 2nd of Sivan
have turned to him with the above-mentioned request. They
noted that voters who turn 18 on the 2nd of Sivan will not be
able to vote on that date, because this year there is a gap
of three weeks between the Jewish and the secular date.
Attorney Shilat accepted Rabbi Gafni's claim, and declared
that the Hebrew date will determine voting eligibility. This
decision will enable a few thousand more people to vote for
the 15th Knesset.
