One of Israel\u2019s biggest political parties has a key election coming up. But they had to delay it. Party bosses quickly ran into that age-old problem of trying to schedule democracy around Britney Spears concerts. Rookie mistake.<\/p>\n
The Labor Party was slated to cast ballots for a new chairperson on July 3 in Tel Aviv, the same day America\u2019s pop icon is scheduled to perform at the city\u2019s Hayarkon Park. For some reason, the Labor Party couldn\u2019t compete with her popularity that day, so they decided to push their vote back a day.<\/p>\n
A Labor Party spokesperson told the Times of Israel pushing back the vote would \u201cmake it easier for people to reach polling stations\u201d lest they get caught in the concert-goers\u2019 traffic. The spokesperson also said they\u2019d had \u201ca difficulty recruiting security guards\u201d for their vote, since apparently most are busy staffing the concert.<\/p>\n
Seeing Britney Spears live must be exciting, but the Labor Party has an exciting race of its own. Seven candidates are jockeying to oust incumbent Isaac Herzog, including former tech magnate and Member of the Knesset Erel Margalit, the former Labor chair and defence minister MK Amir Peretz, and the former chief of an elite military unit Sayeret Matkal.<\/p>\n
Peretz, widely seen as the top challenger to Herzog, said the new date works well as a symbol of the U.S.-Israeli alliance. \u201cAmerican independence day has a lot of messages we can take on board,\u201d he told Israeli radio network Army Radio. \u201cThe 4th July suits us very well.\u201d<\/p>\n
No word on whether he, Herzog, or their party rivals will be heading to the concert themselves. But who could blame them if they did, VIP lounge tickets for her Tel Aviv show are going for the bargain-bin price of about $300. What a deal.<\/p>\n
And who knows, that extra day of campaigning could help a candidate out. Sometimes people are just stronger than yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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