以色列周二大选的投票率创下53年来新高，当时身为该国历史上任职时间最长领导人的总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡正力争连任，但因其对加沙和伊朗战争的处理方式面临反对派挑战。
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年大选同一时段的投票率为47.5%。“自1973年以来，全国范围内从未出现过如此高的投票率，”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，达到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，预计内塔尼亚胡与反对派领袖、前军方参谋长加迪·艾森科特之间的竞争将十分胶着。
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，坚定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所动摇，”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了票，称周二的选举是“一个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，外界对他处理伊朗战争的方式以及应对2023年10月7日哈马斯领导的恐怖袭击的表现日益不满，据报道他在袭击发生前几天曾收到有关警告。国际刑事法院于2024年对内塔尼亚胡发出逮捕令，指控这位总理在加沙地带的军事行动犯有战争罪。
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，一桩持续数年的贿赂案已进入审判阶段，他在该案中提出的总统赦免请求被驳回。这位总理否认与腐败审判和战争罪指控有关的任何不当行为，并为以色列在加沙的行动辩护，称其“阻止了种族灭绝”。内塔尼亚胡获得了特朗普总统的背书，特朗普赞扬了这位总理在长达八个月的伊朗战争期间的领导力。
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·内塔尼亚胡在面对巨大反对声浪时一直坚强、勇敢且出色，这些反对甚至来自以色列自身，”特朗普上周在Truth Social上写道。“尽管如此，他挺了过来，事实上，他蓬勃发展！”
"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!"