Looming gas deal supported by 40%, but 29% oppose; pre-election polls project Netanyahu's right-wing bloc to receive 59-60 seats and Ayelet Shaked creeps closer to Knesset entry

Ra'am chair blames former PM for crime wave, empowering far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir, and criticizes former partners Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi for voting with opposition

Ramat Gan leader says Otzma Yehudit billboard over major highway can stay up unless he's ordered otherwise; deputy mayor files police complaint; MK says it's 'incitement to murder'

In a rally featuring Palestinian flags and nationalist anthems, hardline Arab Israeli party's leaders express confidence they'll enter the next Knesset despite current polling

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

Political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn on sinking Arab parties and good things that come to rebels who wait; military correspondent on whether Iranian forces are leaving Syria

There are still more than six weeks to go until election day, but the splintering of the Joint List may prove decisive

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

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