12:20:

“Yigal Amir was right” graffiti was found near The Movement Party HQ earlier today. Police notified.

13:00:

A bag containing a number of pipe bombs and teargas grenades was found at Adam Junction in the Binyamin Regional Council of Shomron. Bomb demolition technicians neutralized the contents of the bag without incident.

13:49:

In campaign statements over the weekend, The Movement leader Tzipi Livni stated “we need a coalition without Bennett,” referring to the Bayit HaYehudi Party.

13:52:

The Central Election committee has accepted a Likud request to order Bayit HaYehudi to stop using posters showing Naftali Bennett and PM Netanyahu. Bayit Yehudi claimed it shows Bennett supports Netanyahu’s premiership candidacy but Likud feared some may interpret it as the prime minister supporting Bennett. The signs are banned.

14:30:

The “Atid Echad” Party has informed the Central Election Committee it is dropping out of the race, aware it will not meet the minimum threshold to enter the 19th Knesset. The party was established to combat what it calls “the new drug”, online pornography.

15:50:

The Central Election Committee has fined Bayit HaYehudi 72,000 NIS for continuing to use adverts that were disqualified last week.

15:55:

Labor Party leader Shelly Yacimovich calls on voters “not to waste their votes on trendy passing fashionable parties” for the votes are wasted and the parties disappear.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)