KIRYAT GAT, Israel — The surprise candidate shaking up the last days of the campaign before Israelis head to the polls on Tuesday is a far-right nationalist libertarian who advocates small government, legalizing marijuana and a free-market economy. Under Israel’s parliamentary system, even a few seats could be enough to give one side or the other a majority coalition. While the pro-marijuana stance has received some notice, it is his economic message that is resonating with young voters who are fed up with Israel’s same-old politics and exorbitant cost of living. “I don’t smoke,” said Dor Thaler, 24, who runs an e-commerce business and was attending a recent town hall meeting in Kiryat Gat, a working-class town in southern Israel. “But I like everything else about his platform.”

Source: New York Times April 05, 2019 14:48 UTC