Polls at missions close with 69% of 5,086 eligible voters casting their ballots -- a 7% dip from April and a possible harbinger of lower participation in the national vote

Blue and White leader said to have told party officials Netanyahu's sudden focus on alleged election fraud and insistence on deploying cameras aims to cast doubt on vote legitimacy

Mandelblit issues legal opinion saying Likud petition against publication of damaging transcripts ahead of elections should be rejected

Yisrael Beytenu chief also attacks right-wing religious politicians as false messiahs who want to return Israel to 'an absurd and unbearable reality'

PM's Facebook post comes hours after Central Elections Committee denies Likud request to bar reporting on transcripts from graft cases

Top election official gives go ahead for pilot project for observers to film when there is suspicion of fraud, and reportedly turns to the only source with enough body cameras

Hanan Melcer green-lights recording by independent observers when voter fraud suspected and during ballot count, but puts kibosh on controversial Likud program

Bid to disqualify Kahanist party falls short after Labor leader's brother-in-law disappears during vote, leaving committee tied 15-15; other left parties accuse Labor of betrayal

Itamar Ben Gvir wants half a million shekels from Stav Shaffir; stormy committee debate on barring Otzma Yehudit from elections descends into shouting match

Ruling party slams Mandelblit’s legal guidance as ‘unacceptable,’ says barring cameras ‘could hurt democracy and the purity of elections’