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Elections Chief Sohlberg Orders Shin Bet Probe Into Suspected Election Interference
- Central Elections Committee Chair Justice Noam Sohlberg ordered the Shin Bet to investigate unconfirmed allegations that foreign funding and voter bribery influenced Israel’s election.
- The allegations reportedly involved efforts to increase turnout in Arab communities, but there was no evidence of systematic damage to election integrity or established criminal involvement by Arab party leaders.
- Likud and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused foreign actors or Arab-led parties of influencing or stealing the election, while Qatar denied interference.
- Mansour Abbas denied involvement and said Ra’am would cooperate with investigators.
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Israel probes alleged Qatari election meddling in Arab vote as Netanyahu claims election ‘stolen’
Elections officials said the allegations did not indicate widespread fraud and would not invalidate the election, and opposition parties accused Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to delegitimize an election he lost.
·New York, United States
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Israel investigates foreign interference in elections. Likud accuses Arab parties of election theft.
·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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The Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security service, investigates a possible "foreign interference" in Tuesday's legislative elections. Suspect points to the...
·Madrid, Spain
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Did Qatar funnel large sums to influence the Israeli elections? The electoral commission has ordered the security service to urgently investigate the allegations, which are said to have a 'solid basis'.
·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Total News Sources223
Leaning Left15Leaning Right54Center24Last UpdatedBias Distribution58% Right
Bias Distribution
- 58% of the sources lean Right
58% Right
L 16%
C 26%
R 58%
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