10月22日（周四），本·古里安机场到达区的滑动门不断打开，迎来一波又一波乘客。乘客们惊讶地发现，来自民主党的活动人士举着写有“欢迎，我们会赢！”的标语牌。另一些人则穿着印有“伊扎克·拉宾[1995年被犹太极端分子暗杀的前以色列总理]是对的”字样的T恤。刚从纽约飞抵的美国组织“援助联盟”执行主任巴特尔·布莱什-苏尔塔尼克一手拿着充气飞机气球，一手分发“飞去投票”帽子，钻入人群。
On Thursday, October 22, the sliding doors at Ben-Gurion Airport's arrivals section opened continuously to waves of passengers, who were surprised to find activists from the The Democrats party holding signs that read, "Welcome, we are going to win!" Others wore T-shirts that said, "Yitzhak Rabin [former Israeli prime minister assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish extremist] was right." Barely off her flight from New York, Batell Blaish-Sultanik, the executive director of the American organization AID Coalition, slipped into the crowd, holding an inflatable airplane balloon in one hand and handing out "Fly & Vote" caps with the other.
几个月来，自称致力于“加强和维护以色列国民主基础”的无党派倡导团体“援助联盟”一直在为旅居海外的以色列人提供后勤支持，鼓励他们回国投票。
For months, AID Coalition, which describes itself as a non-partisan advocacy group dedicated to "strengthening and preserving the democratic foundations of the State of Israel," has been providing logistical support to Israelis living abroad to encourage them to return home and vote.
除驻外外交官和军人外，海外侨民不能远程投票，也不能前往大使馆参加选举。与往常一样，只有现场投票才会被计入10月27日的立法选举。“根据我们的调查，有6.7万名旅居海外的以色列人正在回国途中，其中大多数来自美国和欧洲。”布莱什-苏尔塔尼克热情地说。
Apart from diplomats and soldiers stationed abroad, expatriates cannot vote remotely or go to an embassy to participate in the election. As usual, only in-person voting will count for the legislative elections on October 27. "According to our survey, 67,000 Israelis living abroad are on their way here, mostly from the United States and Europe," said Blaish-Sultanik enthusiastically.
在本次选举登记的730万人中，中央统计局公布的数据显示，有81万选民（即每九人中就有一人）居住在海外。这是一笔相当可观的票源，尤其是预计这些选民的投票率会非常高。在以色列，此次选举被拿来与1973年赎罪日战争后的选举投票率作比较。
Of the 7.3 million people registered for this election, data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics show that 810,000 voters, or one out of every nine, live abroad. This represents a significant pool of votes, especially since turnout among these voters is expected to be massive. In Israel, this election has been compared to turnout in the 1973 elections that followed the Yom Kippur War.