One of some 1,200 miniature cameras smuggled into polling stations in Arab communities by paid Likud observers during the April 9 elections

Hadash Testifies against Likud Cameras at Arab Polling Stations

The Knesset’s Central Elections Committee (CEC) heard testimony on Thursday, August 8, against the clandestine surveillance operation staged by the Likud during the April 9 general parliamentary elections. On the day ballots were cast for the 21st Knesset, the leading party of the governing coalition, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, deployed some 1,350 polling-station hirelings…

One of some 1,200 miniature cameras smuggled into polling stations in Arab communities in Israel by paid Likud observers during April 9’s elections for the 21st Knesset

Likud Plans to Spend $570,000 to Spy Again on Arab Polling Stations

The Likud, the party heading up PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, is planning to spend an estimated two million shekels on placing surveillance cameras in Arab polling stations all over Israel during the September 17 general elections. During Israel’s April 9 election, hirelings contracted by the far-right Likud were discovered to be wearing secret body…

MK Bezalel Smotrich, appointed by PM Benjamin Netanyahu this week to be Transportation Minister in the interim government, in an election poster for the United Right bloc. The slogan reads: "Committed to More."

Hadash Blasts Netanyahu Naming of Smotrich & Co. to Government

Knesset members from Hadash vehemently attacked the appointment of the racist settler, MK Bezalel Smotrich, as interim Transportation Minister and member of the political-security cabinet in the interim Netanyahu government. Following the announcement of the appointment of the chair of the United Right bloc, along with that of MK Rabbi Rafi Peretz, the chairperson of HaBayit…

MK Ayman Odeh addresses the mass of demonstrators on Saturday night, May 25, in Tel Aviv.

100,000 Protest in Tel Aviv against Immunity Bills for Netanyahu

A hundred thousand Israelis protested on Saturday night, May 25, proposed legislation that would grant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immunity from prosecution on a series of corruption charges. The protesters outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on called for protecting Israel’s democratic sphere against far-right government overreach. The demonstrators rallied against legislation being pushed…