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He challenged Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to a debate on economic policy and stated he would bring down any government that obstructed his reforms.

In a separate incident, right-wing protesters stormed a Tel Aviv building housing the Joint List campaign office and disrupted a film screening that encouraged conscientious objection to military service.

Police arrived after the protesters had departed.

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Regarding election integrity, the Likud party has formally requested the Shin Bet investigate suspected foreign interference, citing reports of foreign diplomats approaching Haredi political figures to potentially support a Gadi Eizenkot-led government.

Likud and the Religious Zionism Party also plan to deploy activists at Arab polling stations due to unsubstantiated fraud claims, a move the Joint List chief has labeled a racist campaign.

On coalition building, Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman has rejected Gadi Eizenkot's proposal for a minority government.

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Uh, this is especially true because of the high level of crime that they see and the rising level of crime that they see under the current coalition.

Yousef Jabarine, the chairman of the Arab-led Joint List, said over the weekend that his party could help an anti-Netanyahu bloc form a minority government without actually joining it.

That would effectively give the opposition the ability to form a government even without a majority.

But this would not be a blank check.

Jabarine said the Joint List would demand several conditions in return for its support, like a fully funded plan to fight violent crime in Arab communities and also a commitment to a diplomatic process aimed at establishing a Palestinian state.

This is a promise none of the mainstream parties can give.

So if as projected election night does not produce a clear winner, the dueling blocs will have some tough decisions to make.

And Arab Israelis.

Joint List and Raam running separately this time.

Raam's Mansour Abbas has made the most interesting move in Israeli politics over this cycle.

He's calling it a pivot from Islamism toward an independent civic platform, and he's running with Yoav Segalovitz, who's a former police brigadier general, which isn't a natural pairing on paper.

Okay, so we're back.

And I was looking at this story that's on our site right now about the Arab-led joint list declaring yesterday that the party is prepared to provide an electoral safety net, really connecting to what we just spoke about, to the opposition bloc.

And this has been the big issue, of course, is the Arab parties.

Will Eisencutt, for example, have Arab parties in his coalition, which he's, you know, very, very vague about in a certain sense? And just largely, let's take a look at that.

What are we looking at right now in terms of this issue of Arab parties? If you just want to give us a general sense where we are right now on this Sunday morning, October 11th, before the election.

I think something that's important to note a lot of the time when we're talking about blocks in the election, the opposition parties and the coalition, the current coalition parties, we are not including a huge number of electoral votes, which are the quote unquote Arab parties, which are the joint list, which is a list made up of three parties, Hadash, Barad and Tal, three Arab majority parties.

And then separately, Ram, which is Mansour Abbas's Islamist party and It now also has Jov Segalovic, who is a former Yesh Atid MK, a very well-known centrist politician, former senior police officer in the number two role.

So these parties are typically not included when we're looking at electoral math.

The Biachad alliance, formed by former Prime Ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, is positioning itself as a significant contender in the upcoming elections, offering a blend of right-wing security stances and more liberal domestic policies.

Joint List Chairman Youssef Jabareen indicated that Arab parties are willing to support a new government but would demand action on crime, housing, and civil rights while ruling out support for war and settlement budgets.

Former IDF Chief Gadi Eisenkot has also vowed to challenge Netanyahu for power after the election.

Polls indicate a clear right-wing slant among the over half a million first-time voters this month, with the October seventh attacks significantly shaping their views.