Believe it or not, another five years has passed, and it’s time once again to elect a mayor in Bet Shemesh. The elections are set for November. Suprisingly, the current 3-time elected mayor, Danny Vaknin, has not been out on the town.
Having arrived in Bet Shemesh in 1994, a year after Vaknin had won the election from Fadida, I’ve only experienced two elections since, in 1998 and in 2003. In the past elections, there had been a whole series of parlour meetings, campaign stops, questions and answers sessions, and generally good-old politicking beginning many months before the elections.
We are now in September, less than two months away from election day on November 11. This time around, the candidates have only been out on the campaign for a few weeks. I know of four candidates. There may even be more.
The incumbent Danny Vaknin runs for Likud. Natan Sheetrit runs for Moledet, Shalom Lerner for the national religious camp (Mafda”l), and Moshe Abutbul for Sha”s.
I was driving today through the Givat Sharet and Ramat Bet Shemesh sections of Bet Shemesh. I noticed a whole bunch of mayoral election banners, mostly for Shalom Lerner, and more interestingly, none for the incumbent Mayor Danny Vaknin.
Here’s a gallery of some of the banners out there so far. If the election was decided by number of banners, then Shalom Lerner would be leading by a landslide.
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