Thousands rally against Netanyahu ahead of vote, demand inquiry into October 7 failures

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : 'bbCoin' controversy Naama Bitterman, an 18-year-old first-time voter attending Saturday's rally, said she was confident the anti-Netanyahu bloc she supports would win and improve Israel's international standing.
47% : "Netanyahu says that if he is elected again, Israel will disconnect from the global economy.
45% : The latest opinion polls published before a blackout on political polling took effect late on Friday showed that neither bloc was projected to win a majority in Israel's 120-seat parliament.
41% : "If he wins the elections, that's what will happen: there will be sanctions, there will be no security agreement with the United States ... and there will be no Israeli economy," Lapid said in an interview with Israel's Channel 12.
40% : The demonstration was organised by the October Council, a group founded by families of people killed or taken hostage during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
40% : "Israel has never been in a situation as it is now," she added.
40% : Netanyahu suggested on Friday that Israel might need to develop an alternative digital economy to counter its growing international isolation.
34% : We must not let bbCoin destroy Israel," he wrote on X. Yair Lapid, a former prime minister and current opposition leader, accused Netanyahu of warning Israelis that they could face severe economic hardship if he won another term.
31% : Netanyahu's government has refused to establish such a commission, of the kind Israel has commonly set up to investigate major national failures.

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