The "meddling in the elections" investigation involving Qatar and the Arab parties in Israel is coming apart at the seams. The smear campaign led by the Likud, which accuses the Arab parties of 'stealing' the October 27 elections with outside help, is canceled, as police investigators report that they are frustrated by the request to investigate an issue that has nothing to do with it. "There is a huge gap between [the Shin Bet chief and David Neman Netanyahu's] claims and the reality," a police official told Channel 12, referring to the joint police committee established to investigate the alleged irregularities. An insider in the Shin Bet accused Zini of serving his "master", the Prime Minister, to try to prevent the certification of the elections. "We have lost trust in the head of the Shin Bet," said a second police source. The deputy head of the police intelligence division, Boaz Blatt, ordered the team to run all the new information regarding the case by him before transferring it to the Shin Bet. The individual details of the case, including the central claim of Qatari involvement, are also unclear: Qatar is not mentioned at all in the materials provided to the police from the Shin Bet. A criminal case against three Bedouins will be investigated unless additional evidence is revealed. Israel's Likud claimed that the Israeli-Palestinian parties "stole" their victories in the vote in recent weeks after winning an unprecedented 19 seats and becoming a potential kingpin of opposition efforts to oust Netanyahu, who has been in power for 19 of the past 30 years.

The "meddling in the elections" investigation involving Qatar and the Arab parties in Israel is coming apart at the seams. The smear campaign led by the Likud, which accuses the Arab parties of 'stealing' the October 27 elections with outside help, is canceled, as police investigators report that they are frustrated by the request to investigate an issue that has nothing to do with it. "There is a huge gap between [the Shin Bet chief and David Neman Netanyahu's] claims and the reality," a police official told Channel 12, referring to the joint police committee established to investigate the alleged irregularities. An insider in the Shin Bet accused Zini of serving his "master", the Prime Minister, to try to prevent the certification of the elections. "We have lost trust in the head of the Shin Bet," said a second police source. The deputy head of the police intelligence division, Boaz Blatt, ordered the team to run all the new information regarding the case by him before transferring it to the Shin Bet. The individual details of the case, including the central claim of Qatari involvement, are also unclear: Qatar is not mentioned at all in the materials provided to the police from the Shin Bet. A criminal case against three Bedouins will be investigated unless additional evidence is revealed. Israel's Likud claimed that the Israeli-Palestinian parties "stole" their victories in the vote in recent weeks after winning an unprecedented 19 seats and becoming a potential kingpin of opposition efforts to oust Netanyahu, who has been in power for 19 of the past 30 years.