The country:
The police and the Shin Bet arrested Abd Abu Shahada of the Democratic National Assembly party, who is close to the party's leader, Sami Abu Shahada, this evening. His wife said this morning that 15 policemen stormed their house and arrested him, without investigating the suspicions against him. She added that she did not know where he had been transferred, and that he had recently been living in Doha as part of his work as a journalist and commentator on Israeli election affairs for Al Jazeera. During his stay in Qatar ahead of the elections, he conducted an interview with former Knesset member Azmi Bashara, a police official said this morning that the activist's arrest is not related to the ongoing investigation into suspicions of foreign interference in the elections.