"If you go out and vote Likud, we'll close the gap," Netanyhau told another mayor. "If not, you'll have Yair Lapid as your next prime minister."A Chabad rabbi then called up to speak with the prime minister: "I am always with you," said the rabbi. "God is with you."Earlier in the day, warning of the rise of the Left, Netanyahu cancelled a planned campaign event in Ashdod and returned to Jerusalem, where he said he was going to work to "save the Right" and ensure that a right-wing government comes to power following the elections. "I received a dramatic update that there is low turnout in Likud strongholds but that there is high turnout in left-wing strongholds," Netanyahu said. "We have to save the Right. There are only a few more hours."
It is unclear if Netanyahu's warning is genuine or is part of his week-long campaign to get people to fear that he will lose in order to increase voter turnout among right-wing voters.
It is referred to in Israel as the “gevald" campaign, a Yiddish expression of alarm.
Earlier in the day, Netanyahu, went to the Netanya beach and warned people there that if they do not vote, Likud will lose. Netanyahu did not don his swimming suit and join the thousands who flocked the beaches of Israel, but rather came to meet them.