 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I'm here today in Tel Aviv on a business trip and I've got a little bit of time to kill, so I thought I'd do a video blog about what's going on in Israel with the elections. We're having elections on Tuesday, in other words, two days from now. It's called in Hebrew, Yom Bichirot. One of the few advantages of Israel having had so many elections recently, this is going to be the fifth elections in less than four years, is that if you work in Israel for a salaried employee, it is a national holiday, so the process of holding a barbecue on election day has become somewhat familiar to people in recent years because we've had so many elections. I'm not personally feel pretty disengaged with the political process at the moment. Disillusion maybe is just as good a word. It's been going on for so long, there's so much negative campaigning from parties, there's so much in-fighting, so much figuring. So much of the political debate seems to me is about the politics of one president at Niyahu, which just doesn't really make any sense to me. The issues I care about personally, I'm going to be as usual looking at what the parties manifestos are at the very last minute, meaning when I got back to Jerusalem tonight, what I'm looking for is security and some party that's serious about tackling the cost of living because that's just a huge issue here, it's so so expensive. That's the biggest issue facing me in my day-to-day life anyway, so I'm going to be checking that out, but knowing almost nothing about who's running at the moment, what their manifestos are, I'm in no way qualified to give information, so I'm just going to leave it at that. One thing I will say is why is Israel going to elections so frequently, so it has to do with the fact that there's never been a single party has never had a majority, in other words, being able to get enough votes that it was able to govern by itself. That's what CNN said in an article I just read, I hope they're correct about that. Certainly the case in recent years, so it's a case of forming coalitions and of course governing by coalition, it's prone to breaking, so that's what happened. This particular coalition lasted not so long, less than two years, and it basically fell apart eventually. At the moment, the Prime Minister is Ya'ir Lapid, he's from the Yishatid Party, which is pretty centrist. Likud is the right-wing party, and then you've got left-wing parties as well. The main debate I'm seeing at the moment with regard to the this coming election is that a May force, Nakhniyahu from Likud, might be forced to bring in very, very far right-wing politicians, specifically a guy called Isomar Ben Gvir, he's become kind of the lightning rod for debate about this election. If that happens, if that block, that electoral block, the right-wing block, gets enough votes, you're going to bring in Ben Gvir and Betzalel Smutrich, both of you are pretty far right to say the least, so those are kind of the centre of what the election is hinging on. So that's what's going on, votes are in two days, I'm going to be barbecuing in two days and trying to inform myself about what party stands for what, sometime before that.