Arabic news site survey sees turnout rising from 38% to 40.5% since breakup, but estimates it would have to reach 52% for Balad to make it into the Knesset

Justice minister says that even after splitting from the more hardline Balad, party heads Odeh and Tibi have 'extremist' views; says only option is Gantz-led broad unity government

Abou Shehadeh's party dismisses 'attempt to silence'; Netanyahu-led bloc seen as unlikely to back the move, preferring Balad have a chance to fall below electoral threshold

'We have no idea who spread this nonsense,' Lapid's party says after Balad chief accused PM of orchestrating Arab-majority alliance's split

Two surveys show Likud-led bloc with 60 seats; Balad, which split from Hadash and Ta'al, failing to make it into Knesset while other Arab parties teeter on edge of threshold

With Balad unlikely to cross election threshold, Netanyahu's Likud not expected to petition for Arab nationalist faction to be disqualified as it has in past

Ayman Odeh predicts Hadash-Ta'al 'will be the most important party' after election if neither side has majority, though split from Balad largely seen as boon to Netanyahu's bloc

Drama over rotation deal splinters party into Hadash-Ta'al and Balad, in move that could help Netanyahu back to power; Labor and Meretz finalize independent runs, rebuffing Lapid

Parties have been locked in fight over spots on slate with alliance projected to win 5-6 seats; Odeh says Lapid, Gantz 'will need to sweat a lot' to get Joint List's recommendation

Report says meeting with senior Joint List lawmakers was aimed at returning Ra’am to the fold, after it ran separately in the last elections and joined coalition