🇮🇱⚡- Israeli elections:

Votes counted: 97.42%

• Likud-bloc - 53 seats
- Likud: 27
- Otzma Yehudit: 7
- Yahadut HaTorah: 7
- Shas: 6
- Tkuma: 6

• Yashar-bloc - 48 seats
- Yashar: 21
- B'Yachad: 12
- Democrats: 8
- Yisrael Beiteinu: 7

• Arab coalition - 19 seats
- Joint List: 12
- Ra'am: 7

• Other
- Amcha Israel: 0
- Reservists and the Economic Party: 0
- Noam: 0

🇮🇱⚡- Sources within the Joint List have told Channel 11 that there is resentment towards Eisenkot because he has not yet contacted the Joint List, and has only held talks with his Yashar camp.

🇺🇸🇸🇻🇭🇹⚡️- El Salvador has reportedly deployed approximately 1,000 troops to Haiti after a gang ambush left four Salvadoran military personnel missing near Port-au-Prince. This is a major escalation from the initial 200 special forces deployed last week.

American C-130 aircraft helped transport the reinforcements, significantly expanding President Bukele's military operations against Haiti's powerful criminal gangs.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump is heckled multiple times during his rally in Chillicothe, Ohio.

The protesters shout insults related to Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- Internal polling from the Ohio GOP shows that Vivek Ramaswamy is collapsing as Amy Acton takes an 8 point lead.

🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Far-right Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman, a member of the Yashar-aligned camp, has cut contact with Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, and Yair Lapid.

According to Israeli Channel 12, Lieberman has made it clear that he will not, under any circumstances, join or support a government that depends on Arab seats.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- The US Defense Intelligence Agency has released a satellite image of China's secretive Shenlong spaceplane, which closely copies the design of the American X-37B, a spacecraft the US has operated for nearly two decades.

These reusable, unmanned spacecraft conduct classified military experiments, maneuver in orbit, and deploy satellites before returning to Earth. The image, captured by an American satellite in 2024, shows Shenlong with its payload bay doors open, giving US intelligence a rare look at China's orbital operations.

🇮🇱⚡- "The suspicion involves large sums of money allegedly transferred from external Arab sources to increase voter turnout in the Arab sector through illegal means," - Amit Segal of Israeli Channel 12.

"The foreign Arab country involved is likely Qatar," - Ynet.

🇶🇦🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Funds from Turkey and Qatar influenced the elections against Likud," - Amit Segal.

🇶🇦🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: The Central Election Committee has opened an investigation into the "election bribery" by Qatar and Turkey.

Several arrests have been made at the Ra'am camp.

🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- "The serious allegations that have been revealed necessitate a full investigation by the Shin Bet. No one should be immune.

Our enemies in Qatar have clearly understood the situation: they immediately realized that the Netanyahu government is good for Israel and bad for Israel's enemies. Replacing it serves the interests of our enemies, not ours," - Yariv Levin, Deputy Prime Minister and senior Likud MK.

🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- "We welcome the Central Election Committee's investigation into the allegations. Ra'am has no connection to the aforementioned case," - Ra'am.

🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu and his associates are leading an illegitimate campaign to influence the Israeli public with the aim of delaying the publication of the election results," - Gadi Eisenkot of Yashar.

🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- Ahmad Tibi of the Joint List visited Qatar 48 hours before the elections.

🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- "I want to praise what the Arab lists [Joint List and Ra'am] achieved in the recent Knesset elections in Israel, with the significant progress in which the number of Arab seats in the Knesset rose to 19.

This is the largest number of seats the Arab lists have held to date. It strengthens the hope among Palestinian citizens in the ‘48 [the anti-Zionist term used by the Arab community in the Middle East to refer to Israel pre-1967 borders and in reference to the 'Palestinians of 1948'] areas of preserving their identity, strengthening their position and living in peace in their land.

I want to especially highlight my brother Ahmad Tibi [of the Joint List], for his faith, his struggle and his strong drive to secure Arab rights in the ‘48 areas," - Hamad bin Jassim, former Prime Minister of Qatar.

🇮🇱⚡- Following the ‘Ra’amgate’ affair, which allegedly involves Qatari money being used to buy votes, and with Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman, part of the Yashar camp, cutting contact with Eisenkot and Bennett and threatening to withdraw if the bloc relies on any Arab party support, Channel 12’s Amit Segal predicts that a second election is now the most likely outcome. Benjamin Netanyahu would then remain prime minister for the next six months, until new elections are held in April 2027.

🇨🇭🇰🇵⚡️- Switzerland announces it will open a new diplomatic office in Pyongyang and create a direct permanent contact with the DPRK.

🇨🇭🇨🇳⚡️- Switzerland also just recently announced a brand new agreement with China aimed at sharing scientific data.

🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- "Shin Bet has been aware of the 'Ra'amgate' affair for days, but only updated Justice Noam Sohlberg, head of the Central Election Committee, once the events actually unfolded after the elections," - Yaron Avraham of Israeli Channel 12.

Note, former Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar was ousted by Benjamin Netanyahu and replaced by David Zini in September 2025. Rerum Novarum has previously reported that Zini’s appointment was very likely influenced by Netanyahu’s wife, Sara.