图：以色列总理内塔尼亚胡和加迪·艾森科特在选举日投票。© 路透社投票率说明了一切。以色列人以数十年来最大的数量投出选票，参加2023年10月7日袭击事件后的首次大选。这是对该国历史上最血腥一天的公投？绝对是。还有更多：公民想要什么样的以色列？
Cover image: Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot vote on election day in Israel. © REUTERS The turnout tells the tale. Israelis casting ballots in their largest numbers in decades in the first general election since the October Seventh attacks of 2023. A referendum on the bloodiest day in the nation’s history? Definitely that. And more: What kind of Israel do citizens want?
虽然传统盟友早已对加沙地带遭受的无休止惩罚和犹太定居者在约旦河西岸的恐怖袭击失去了同情，但以色列人却在为他们面临的新常态而分裂：一个通常致力于避免长期军事行动的国家，如今如何生活在永久战争状态中，总理甚至拥抱“超级斯巴达国家”的概念——向古希腊城邦斯巴达的尚武之风致敬——并承诺在本雅明·内塔尼亚胡的保证下让美国站在以色列一边，实现一种辉煌的孤立。
While traditional allies have long lost sympathy with the unending punishment inflicted on Gaza and the terror attacks by Jewish settlers in the West Bank, Israelis are instead divided over the new normal for them, how a nation that usually strived to avoid prolonged campaigns now lives in a permanent state of war, the prime minister even embracing the concept of a "super Sparta state", a nod to the martial ways of the ancient Greek city, a splendid isolation backed up by Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise to keep the United States on Israel's side.
我们将探讨推动这一极高投票率的其他议题，高投票率必然意味着惊喜。增长最快的选民群体——极端正统派犹太教徒——将发挥多大分量？占公民五分之一的巴勒斯坦裔公民呢？他们的投票率通常较低。还有那些从国外飞回投票的人？国家将向何处发展？
We'll ask about the other issues driving that very high turnout, a turnout surely synonymous with surprises. What weight for the country’s fastest growing constituency… the ultra-Orthodox? How about the one in five citizens who are Palestinian? Their turnout’s usually lower. And all those who've flown in from abroad? Which way will the country break?
由弗朗索瓦·皮卡德、玛雅·亚塔盖内、朱丽叶·拉方、伊莱达·哈比普、查尔斯·温特制作。
Produced by François Picard, Maya Yataghène, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente.