Campaign is somewhat lackluster nationwide, but apathy especially acute among Arab minority where turnout is feared to be low

Netanyahu said to promise NIS 3 billion a year for ultra-Orthodox education to ensure joint run of Ashkenazi Haredi parties in UTJ; Meretz still willing to merge with Labor

'We've failed,' says Balad MK Mtanes Shahadeh, after four-way meeting fails to bring unity; parties will likely not run as one bloc, although decision not final

Judge accuses director of failing to investigate claims in widely discredited 2002 documentary that alleged the IDF carried out a massacre in the West Bank

Balad MK calls decision by Ra'am faction leader Mansour Abbas to skip out on vote and break ranks with rest of party "a blow to the platform of the Joint List"

Mansour Abbas, who drew fire from his opposition colleagues for helping Likud overturn a Knesset vote last week, is a conservative Muslim urging ‘pragmatic’ Arab Israeli politics