With just over seven hours left to vote, turnout in the Israeli elections is at its lowest levels since 1973. As of 7am (Eastern), only 30.9 percent of Israel's five million eligible voters had turned out at Israel's some 8,000 polling stations to cast their ballots, a nearly five percent decrease from the last elections. Thirty minutes ago, Kadima sent out hundreds of text messages calling on citizens to head to polls, as these turnout numbers do not bode well for the left of the party.
Voter turnout in the Arab and Druze sectors was also low. By mid-day, only 11 percent of voters had cast their ballots in the northern Israeli Arab town of Shfaram, 1.5 percent in the Druze town Daliat al-Carmel and in Haifa, only 7.5 percent of Arabs had turned out to vote.
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