Israeli Prime Minister warns against "Islamization of Israel" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the extraordinary success of the Arab parties in the Knesset elections, and accused Qatar and Turkey of an intervention aimed at "Islamizing Israel." These countries, according to Netanyahu, financed the election campaign of the Palestinian-Israeli parties, which won the largest number of seats, 19, temporarily, in the parliament in the entire history of elections in Israel. On Tuesday, Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party officially accused Arab political forces of widespread fraud and "stealing" the elections against the background of their historic success. Official statements by the right-wing bloc claim that Arab parties used vote bribery, violence, threats to commissioners, and illegal software to mobilize the electorate. In today's statements the party went further. "After the news of foreign attempts to take over the Knesset became known, it became clear that no Israeli party should cooperate with Ream and the Joint List, oust the speaker of the Knesset by bribing the voters and establish a dangerous government for Israel," Likud said. Netanyahu's office has already survived one Catergate exactly one year ago. The closest adviser to the Prime Minister of Israel, Yonatan Urich, then found himself at the center of a high-profile scandal called "Catergate". He was forced to admit that he received a total of 1.2 million shekels from the Qatari government for work with foreign clients, including projects to improve the image of Qatar (including the lighthouse project). But this is not Netanyahu's main "Qatar story". Time magazine published documents showing that the Israeli authorities have been matching Qatari rations to the Gaza Strip worth about two billion dollars since 2012.

Israeli Prime Minister warns against "Islamization of Israel" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the extraordinary success of the Arab parties in the Knesset elections, and accused Qatar and Turkey of an intervention aimed at "Islamizing Israel." These countries, according to Netanyahu, financed the election campaign of the Palestinian-Israeli parties, which won the largest number of seats, 19, temporarily, in the parliament in the entire history of elections in Israel. On Tuesday, Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party officially accused Arab political forces of widespread fraud and "stealing" the elections against the background of their historic success. Official statements by the right-wing bloc claim that Arab parties used vote bribery, violence, threats to commissioners, and illegal software to mobilize the electorate. In today's statements the party went further. "After the news of foreign attempts to take over the Knesset became known, it became clear that no Israeli party should cooperate with Ream and the Joint List, oust the speaker of the Knesset by bribing the voters and establish a dangerous government for Israel," Likud said. Netanyahu's office has already survived one Catergate exactly one year ago. The closest adviser to the Prime Minister of Israel, Yonatan Urich, then found himself at the center of a high-profile scandal called "Catergate". He was forced to admit that he received a total of 1.2 million shekels from the Qatari government for work with foreign clients, including projects to improve the image of Qatar (including the lighthouse project). But this is not Netanyahu's main "Qatar story". Time magazine published documents showing that the Israeli authorities have been matching Qatari rations to the Gaza Strip worth about two billion dollars since 2012.