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In a stunning upset, religious-Zionist mayor-candidate for Beit Shemesh Aliza Bloch has won the race to city hall and narrowly beat her haredi rival and incumbent Moshe Abutbul by just over 500 votes.
The result is a true revolution in the city where the population has become more common in recent years, and where strong inter-communal disputes have arisen due to the mayor and his administration and the actions of extremist haredi elements in the city.
Abitbul and a predominantly haredi municipal council, during which time many non-haredi residents, and depending on the election results significant numbers of haredim, the growth of dissatisfied and hostile to the mayor's administration which has faced allegations of corruption and mismanagement of the city's affairs.
When the votes were counted after the election on Tuesday, Abutbul had a razor thin lead of 250 votes, but just over 1,000 soldiers' votes and some 300 votes of disabled people who were counted later remained unopened.
In the early hours of the day, they were finally counted, with 965 going to Bloch and 432 going to Abutbul, leaving Bloch with a winning majority of just 533, just 1.3 percent of the 42,000 cast votes.
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