Netanyahu: Israel needs to prep ‘alternate economy’ to circumvent any global sanctions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is reportedly already preparing to challenge results from polling stations in Arab cities and towns before voting has even begun.

According to a Channel 12 news report, Likud is already drawing up a number of complaints and allegations of fraud for voting stations in Arab communities.

The party is reportedly readying to challenge women who show up to vote fully veiled as well as allegations that some polling stations have segregated voting times for men and women. The TV channel says such issues are already addressed by Central Elections Commission regulations.

US President Donald Trump says his Vice President JD Vance’s decision not to endorse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “up to him.”

Trump endorsed Netanyahu earlier this week, but Vance declined to join him in backing the Israeli leader, saying he was focusing on US midterm elections and not looking overseas.

“I don’t know that he did or didn’t, that’s up to him,” Trump says, before being told by the reporter that Vance did not. He then says: “I would leave that up to him.”

A gunman firing from his car killed one person and wounded five — including a 12-year-old girl shot eight times — in the Paris suburbs today, in what the French presidency condemns as a “racist terrorist attack.”

French President Emmanuel Macron visits the working-class town of Trappes southwest of Paris, which is home to a large Muslim population, and where a gunman opened fire earlier in the day in an attack suspected of having targeted people of foreign origin.

This was a “racist, terrorist attack,” says the Elysee presidential palace.

After his envoy in the Middle East claimed that the US could “absolutely” strike Iran this weekend, US President Donald Trump seems to pour cold water on the idea, telling reporters he’s unfamiliar with such plans.

Trump is asked about Tom Barrack’s comments before boarding a plane in Florida.

The final polls published before Israel’s national election on Tuesday show continued gridlock, with neither the current coalition nor the so-called change bloc predicted to be able to form a government following the vote, and a number of small parties mostly falling below the electoral threshold.

Polls are not allowed to be published beginning tomorrow, until the exit polls are published the moment that voting stations close on Tuesday at 10 p.m.