Sorry for killing your mindset and easing your tension ahead of Election Day on Tuesday, "we wanted so much to believe that the last days before the election
would be the most riveting, tempestuous and tense period of the
campaign. In short: money time," writes Yossi Verter in Haaretz.
"But what we experienced in the past week
brings to mind a different term from pro basketball: garbage time. The
long stretch when one team is ahead by a large and irreversible margin,
the players skitter listlessly on the court and fans glance at their
watches."
"The bottom line remains unchanged," Verter kills the celebration. "The Likud-right-Haredi bloc is
leading. Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu, despite its ongoing weakness, is set to
win about twice as many seats as the next-largest party. And every poll
has Benjamin Netanyahu as the next prime minister."