Lieberman urges Ultra Orthodox Jews to vote in polls

Avigdor Lieberman, the chairman of the Yisrael Beiteinu party (United Torah Judaism Party), shared a video titled “Today, ultra-Orthodox Jews are going to war.”

To a background of military music, the video shows clips of a speech from a rabbi urging the crowd to vote for the United Torah Judaism party.

“The tools of the war is election… if everyone here brings another one and votes for [United Torah Judaism], we will double our power,” the speaker said.

Lieberman, who served as Israel’s defence minister until November, has pushed for a controversial law that seeks to draft members of the ultra-Orthodox community into the army.

The conscription bill has been almost forgotten amid the intense election campaign, but it was the tipping point that led Israel into an election less than six months after the last one in May, according to Ynet's news Hebriew site.