以色列周二大选的投票率创下53年来新高，此时身为该国历史上任职时间最长领导人的总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡正全力争取连任，但他因应对加沙和伊朗战争的方式而面临反对声浪。
Voter turnout in Israel's election on Tuesday hit a 53-year high as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, already the longest-serving leader in the country's history, fights to hold on to power as he faces opposition over his handling of the wars in Gaza and Iran.
以色列中央选举委员会表示，截至周二下午4点（美国东部时间上午10点），投票率为55.7%，而2022年大选同一时点的投票率为47.5%。“自1973年以来，全国范围内的投票率从未如此之高，”中央选举委员会代理总干事迪安·利夫内对《以色列时报》表示，随后他补充说已有超过400万人投出选票。利夫内称，目前投票率最高的城市是莫迪因，达60.7%，其次是特拉维夫的50.5%和耶路撒冷的47.7%。
Israel's Central Elections Committee said voter turnout was at 55.7 percent at 4 p.m. (10 a.m. EST), having reached 47.5 percent by that time during the 2022 election. "There hasn’t been such a nationwide voter turnout since 1973," Acting director general of the Central Elections Committee Dean Livne told The Times of Israel, later saying that more than 4 million people have cast their ballots. Livne said the city with the highest turnout so far was Modiin, at 60.7 percent, followed by Tel Aviv at 50.5 percent and Jerusalem at 47.7 percent.
以色列民主研究所研究员奥费尔·克尼格对CNN表示，根据早期结果，选举官员观察到“所有板块”投票率均有所上升，唯独“极端正统派城市”出现下降。“在以色列社会的其他群体中，我们看到投票率在上升，”克尼格说。“非常、非常谨慎地讲，我们可以看到自由派大本营的增幅高于内塔尼亚胡联盟大本营。”克尼格指出，部分群体可能选择在当天晚些时候去投票。投票将于当地时间晚上10点结束，预计将导致内塔尼亚胡与前军方参谋长、反对党领袖加迪·艾森科特之间出现胶着局面。
Ofer Kenig, a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute told CNN that based on the early results, election officials have seen an increase "in all sectors" except in the "ultra-orthodox cities, [where] we see a decrease in voter turnout." "In other segments of the Israeli society, we see an increase," Kenig said. "Very, very cautiously we can see a higher increase in liberal strongholds rather than the Netanyahu coalition strongholds." Kenig noted that some groups may choose to go vote later in the day. Polls close at 10 p.m. local time, likely leading to a tight outcome between Netanyahu and former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, the opposition leader.
据CNN报道，艾森科特在赫兹利亚投完票后，敦促“所有以色列人去投票，并坚持建国以来更换最差政府的使命”。“我建议不要被内塔尼亚胡的恐吓战术激怒，”他在投票站外对该媒体表示。
Eisenkot, while casting his ballot in Herzliya, urged "all Israelis to go vote and stick to the mission of replacing the worst government since the state’s founding," CNN reported. "I suggest not to get excited by Netanyahu’s scare tactics," he said outside the polling station, according to the outlet.
内塔尼亚胡在耶路撒冷的一个投票站投下了选票，称周二的选举是“非常感人且决定命运的时刻”。这位总理的政治前途悬而未决，因为人们对他在伊朗战争中的应对以及对2023年10月7日哈马斯领导的恐怖袭击的反应日益不满，据报道，他在袭击发生前几天曾收到警告。国际刑事法院于2024年对内塔尼亚胡发出了逮捕令，指控这位总理在加沙地带的军事行动中犯有战争罪。
Netanyahu cast his ballot at a polling station in Jerusalem, calling Tuesday's election a "very moving and fateful moment." The prime minister's political future hangs in the balance amid growing frustration over his handling of the Iran war and response to the Hamas-led terror attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which he was reportedly warned about in the days before the attack. The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in 2024, accusing the prime minister of war crimes for his military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
内塔尼亚胡还面临腐败指控，一桩持续多年的受贿案已进入审判阶段，他请求总统特赦的请求被拒绝。总理否认在腐败审判和战争罪指控中有任何不当行为，并为以色列在加沙的行动进行了辩护，称其“防止了种族灭绝”。内塔尼亚胡获得了特朗普总统的背书，后者赞扬了这位总理在长达八个月的伊朗战争中的领导力。
Netanyahu has also faced accusations of corruption amid a years-long bribery case that has gone to trial, one in which his request for a presidential pardon was denied. The prime minister has denied any wrongdoing in connection with the corruption trial and the war crime accusations, and has defended Israel's actions in Gaza as having "prevented genocide." Netanyahu received President Trump's endorsement, who praised the prime minister's leadership during the eight-month-long Iran war.
“比比·内塔尼亚胡面对巨大的反对力量，包括来自以色列国内的反对，表现得坚强、勇敢且睿智，”特朗普上周在Truth Social上写道。“尽管有这一切，他不仅坚持了下来，实际上还蓬勃发展！”
"Bibi Netanyahu has been Strong, Brave, and Brilliant in the face of tremendous opposition, including that coming from even Israel, itself," Trump wrote on Truth Social last week. "Despite all of that, he has endured and, in fact, he has thrived!"