TEL AVIV, Israel, March 29 (UPI) -- Israelis receive a lot of spam e-mail, but in the month leading up to Tuesday's general elections the amount spiked due to political messages.
The Israeli anti-spam company COMMTOUCH said that during the month of March, 59 percent of messages reaching the average Israeli's inbox were junk mail, according to a report on the Hebrew news Web site Ynet.
Of the spam messages, 36 percent were political, COMMTOUCH said, and the majority of those came from the Labor Party and the Shinui Party, the site said.
Labor ended up winning 20 seats in the 120-seat Knesset on Tuesday, while Shinui, once a significant force in Israeli politics, failed this year to clear the vote threshold required to enter the Knesset at all.
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