With the final count unlikely to shift results significantly, experts say Gadi Eisenkot’s hopes of unseating Benjamin Netanyahu rest on his willingness to work with Palestinian parties
Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has called for the arrest of leaders of Arab political parties, citing unsubstantiated claims of foreign funding.
In a post on X, he said the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security service, “must order, as early as this morning, the arrest of the leaders of the Arab parties suspected of involvement with Qatari funds”, without clarifying further.
Election day passed with very few irregular incidents concerning the integrity of the election, even when compared to previous elections.
It should be emphasised that there is no investigative- or intelligence-based supporting evidence for the claims.
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