Is civil war looming? Or his hands are tied more tightly For a week, Israelis debated whether the elections were bought from abroad and what to do about it, but today the Central Election Commission in Israel put an end to it and confirmed the voting results. The campaign to delegitimize the votes of the Arab parties, which the Likud has been running in recent days, has officially ended in nothing. But the period turned out to be a comma: just below the screen, the head of the General Security Service (Shab) David Zini reported to the Central Election Commission about suspicions of large-scale injection of foreign funds into the campaign of Arab parties. Now Israel has a new bone of contention - the security service itself, which the opposition accuses of politicization. To a large degree of plausibility, this investigation is a political move by Netanyahu's team, given that Buck admits his inability to "form an overall picture" of the case and reach "final conclusions" about it. Statements on thousands of defendants, including heads of Arab parties, were published de facto before the first evidence, but in a normal investigation of a serious service the order is reversed. The Netanyahu bloc benefits from the investigation in any outcome: if they find the money, the Arab record vote will be found to have been "bought from abroad" and de facto canceled, when the representatives of the parties will be brought to criminal responsibility; if they are not found, they will blame the "leftists", the legal advisor and the police, who allegedly "tied the hands of the Shin Bet", which will also be a convenient reason for criticism. For the political system in Israel, this means a new level of involvement of the intelligence services in coalition games. This will only erode the public's trust in the security forces, and appointments to the Shin Bet, the Mossad and the police will begin to be perceived more and more as a party matter rather than professional elections.