 Hi friends and subscribers welcome back to my youtube channel, my name is Daniel Rosel and this channel focuses on life on the ground here in Jerusalem and Israel. From today there are about 30 days to go until the municipal elections take place throughout Israel and here in Jerusalem. Sukkot is also about to start around Jerusalem which is always one of my favorite times of the year. So I thought I'd drop in with a few more miscellaneous updates from the campaign Now that the official date for declaring one's candidacy for the elections has come and gone we're left with a somewhat discombobulated playing field of different factions vying for power in Jerusalem City Hall. On the left of the political spectrum we have an alliance made up of Yossi Havelio, Laura Wharton and others. These two are grizzled local politicians who have been campaigning for years for ways to make Jerusalem more moderate and tolerant. In the sort of middle of the political spectrum is Hitorot under the leadership of chairman Adir Schwartz. I'll get around to translating the Hitorot platform sometime soon. It's worthy of scrutiny and includes aspects touching upon economics, pluralism, and even the nightlife of Jerusalem. There's also a religious list under the leadership of Haggit Moshe which has drawn attention among English speakers because it includes a well-known community rabbi. Her list is called Maffdal Azionut Achadash which means in English the new Zionist movement. Moshe herself is currently a deputy mayor of Jerusalem but her list seeks to bring several first timers into the fold of Jerusalem politics. For religious Jerusalemites who want somebody to defend their interests but who are also turned off by the naked extremism of R.A. King this seems like the likely vote clincher. On the hard right of the political spectrum is deputy mayor R.A. King who, after much anticipation, finally released his political list of running mates. The official name of the list is Myochadim Im R.A. King which translates to We Are Uniting with R.A. King. I pointed out previously the irony of this particular choice of name given the King's platform was undoubtedly the most divisive of anybody running in these elections. So far he's threatened to clamp down on Shabbat violators in the first Asian complex, brought Hitorot to court for operating a minibus on Shabbat as an electoral favor and won the case, and has also vowed to cut funding to an LGBT center. So who exactly King is planning on uniting through his campaign is really anybody's guess. And where he of paying too much attention to R.A. King's campaign because doing so feels like playing into the desired effect of his provocative rabble rousing. But as it's really the most colorful of the various campaigns mounted to date let me just jot down a couple of quick observations. The first of those is that King yesterday succeeded in legally quashing Hitorot's Shabbat bus escapade to Tel Aviv. There's no public transport between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Shabbat and as a sort of election gimmick Hitorot for the past month or so has been operating a free minibus. Despite the fact that the bus service consisted of providing transport for literally only a couple of dozen Jerusalemites, it drew the ire of King who is running on an explicitly national religious platform. He argued against the bus on the basis that it constituted a prohibited gift to the electorate in contravention of Israel's national electioneering laws and it seems like he managed to convince the judge enough to grant him an injunction preventing the running of the bus service. So goodbye Hitorot Shabbat minibus which is now officially and legally been shut down. The second and kind of weirder development is that King tweeted recently about a meeting he appears to have held in his office with former convictus by Jonathan Pollard. Given that Pollard betrayed Israeli state secrets he's the rather polarizing figure here. Nevertheless after recently flaunting the endorsement to his campaign of Israeli MMA fighter Haim Gozali who claimed that Jews protesting the government in New York are the leading global cause of antisemitism, King has chosen to wheel out another surprising and rather polarizing endorseee. As King has already declared his list I'm not sure what surprise announcement he may be setting the stage for, perhaps Pollard is preparing to issue an official statement supporting his campaign. I really have no idea. As ever I'm waiting for the negative campaigning and splintering to reach its natural conclusion and I'm eagerly awaiting the putting forward of constructive ideas for the future of Jerusalem from really any of the parties who are running for office. Until the next update and please subscribe if you'd like to receive more videos from me.