After years of home demolitions, crime and discrimination, Bedouin voters chose to protest by democratic means, turning out in record numbers. Fraud allegations left many feeling that even their election participation is being cast as illegitimate

The Arab parties' stellar showing wasn't a polling collapse; every forecaster saw the uptrend in the months before the vote. But the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot fell far short of Netanyahu's coalition, and this was a major miss

Justices sharply criticized the army for failing to return the Tubasi family by a court-imposed deadline. Security forces later tried to bring them home but were attacked by settlers who had established an outpost nearby