Central Elections Committee orders Together party to remove footage of troops from campaign video

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The chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Justice Noam Sohlberg, ordered Together party leader Naftali Bennett on Wednesday to remove footage of soldiers engaged in operational activity and an IDF artillery cannon from an election campaign video.In the video, Bennett refers, among other things, to soldiers who have been fighting for months while Haredim evade military service. As he discusses the soldiers, the footage appears in the background. The Likud Party argued that this constituted the use of public assets and the IDF for election campaigning, in violation of the law.