I guess I just don’t understand how people can be
swayed by economic promises when they face a threat
to their very existence.
Keep in mind that this “threat to their existence” has been ONGOING since 1948, and they’ve fought many wars over it and they just got through with Hamas and all their rockets.
SO ... when your entire lifetime (of the voter) is an ongoing and never ending threat to their existence ... there will be voters that start thinking of merely “living” in the meantime. And these other domestic issues in Israel have to do with merely living.