{"id":13065,"date":"2014-03-18T15:17:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T21:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=13065"},"modified":"2014-03-18T15:17:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T21:17:34","slug":"incumbent-wins-in-beit-shemesh-repeat-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/incumbent-wins-in-beit-shemesh-repeat-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Incumbent wins in Beit Shemesh repeat election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    TEL AVIV (JTA) \u2013 Incumbent Moshe Abutbul was reelected in a close vote for mayor of Beit Shemesh, after the results of an earlier election were invalidated due to voter fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Abutbul, who is haredi Orthodox and a member of the Sephardi Orthodox Shas party, beat challenger Eli Cohen, who tried to unite the central Israeli city\u2019s secular and modern Orthodox communities in his campaign. In recent years, the city of 80,000 has become a flashpoint for conflicts between Israel\u2019s haredi community and its secular and modern Orthodox populations.<\/p>\n<p>Abutbul took 51 percent of the vote to Cohen\u2019s 49 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The city has seen conflict between haredi and secular residents over restrictions on women\u2019s dress and gender-segregated seating on public buses. In a widely publicized incident in 2011, an 8-year-old Orthodox girl was spat on by haredim on the way to school for her perceived immodest dress.<\/p>\n<p>The March 11 vote was a repeat of a October election, which Abutbul also won in a close vote. That result was declared void because of alleged voter fraud, including reports of repeat voting and illegal use of identification cards.<\/p>\n<p>The lead-up to the vote saw a heated and at times vitriolic campaign. Turnout was higher in the March 11 vote than in the October election, drawing more than 70 percent of the city\u2019s voters.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Incumbent%20wins%20in%20Beit%20Shemesh%20repeat%20election\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1794],"tags":[3336,8781,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13066,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065\/revisions\/13066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}