The Social Equality minister used a letter written to police by the Arab mayors' council head expressing general support in the fight against Arab community crime as evidence that Arab leaders supported her diverting funds to the Shin Bet to combat crime

Likud remains the largest in the Knesset with 27 seats, two up from last week, a Channel 12 News poll finds. Former PM Naftali Bennett's party gains one seat to reach 22, while Yair Golan's Democrats party drops one seat to 11 and Smotrich's Religious Zionism party falls below the threshold

Hamas controls the enclave with an iron fist, no one has volunteered to disarm it and Netanyahu is in no hurry to press on – but the U.S. president wants a win ■ On the northern front, Hezbollah's new motto has become 'Survival is victory'

There can no longer be any doubt: The conduct of Israel's president is a national disgrace ■ Does anyone really believe that after a pardon, Netanyahu will roll back his assault on democracy? ■ Galit Distel Atbaryan, a modern-day Joseph McCarthy

With thousands of members, a quarter-million social media followers, and a spot on TIME's list of emerging leaders, 'Standing Together' co-founder Alon Lee-Green is charting a new course for Israel's fractured political opposition