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The latest flashpoint in the west bank comes just days out from Israel’s most consequential election in a generation. The ballot is being seen as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership after years of war and social upheaval.

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00:02At this busy kebab shop, the lunchtime menu is proving far more appetising than the electoral
00:08picks on offer.
00:10It doesn't matter which leaders will be in power, good or bad, they're all crap in the
00:15end.
00:1625,000 people used to live in Kiryat Shmona, near the Israel-Lebanon border, but years
00:22of war, including rocket and drone attacks from Lebanon's Hezbollah, forced thousands
00:26to flee, and only around half the population has returned.
00:32The story of Kiryat Shmona is going to be a tragic story.
00:36Shimon Kamari argues the city has been abandoned by Benjamin Netanyahu's government, but he
00:41also fears many in this conservative stronghold won't change their vote at the upcoming election.
00:49Likud flows in their blood, and it seems to me that it's very difficult to get it out
00:54of them.
00:54Four years ago, almost half of Kiryat Shmona's residents voted for Netanyahu and Likud.
01:01That support is still apparent today.
01:04We want a leader who will do what he does, take care of the enemies in the right way.
01:09He leads the country in a measured manner.
01:12But this time around, Netanyahu is facing an increasingly fractured political landscape.
01:19This culture that took root in the state of Israel, the culture of lies, we have to change
01:53it.
01:54We're in prison, one of the two.
01:57Food for thought.
01:58the one of the promised times of the people who have gone!
01:59that at the end but that Karl andîap, this tradition will give you money or shame in the
02:00couple of years.

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