Politics
Netanyahu and Arab parties clash over Arab voter turnout on Israeli election day
October 27, 2026 at 07:06 PM
6 reports · 5 in Arabic, 1 in English · over 2 hours
يواليوم السابع
الحركة العربية للتغيير: نريد منع نتنياهو من ترؤس حكومة انتقالية.. 74.3% نسبة التصويت
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MAMasrawy
"إكس" تكذب نتنياهو بشأن صورة الناخبين العرب أمام لجنة الاقتراع
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SNSky News Arabia
"القائمة العربية" ترد على اتهام نتنياهو بـ"سرقة الانتخابات"
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AJAl Jazeera English
Arab parties in Israel accuse Netanyahu of inciting hatred to scare voters
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MAMasrawy
القائمة العربية المشتركة تتهم الشرطة الإسرائيلية بمنع التصويت في عرعرة بالنقب
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AJAl Jazeera Arabic
تصويت العرب يقلق نتنياهو.. تحذيرات من خسارة السلطة واتهامات بالتضليل
(opens the publisher’s site)Voting in Israel's 26th Knesset election proceeded Tuesday as Netanyahu warned of Arab voter fraud and Arab parties accused him of incitement.
- Netanyahu posted on X that Palestinian citizens were "raiding the polling stations and stealing the elections" and urged right-wing Israelis to vote for Likud.
- United Arab List leader Mansour Abbas called the posts "a scare tactic to mobilise right-wing voters"; Joint List leader Yousef Jabareen accused Netanyahu of incitement.
- The Joint Arab List said police seized ballot boxes and blocked voters in Ar'ara in the Negev, and that the photo Netanyahu shared was AI-generated.
- The election committee said turnout reached 31.5% in the first five hours, the highest at that stage in about 50 years.
- Platform X added a correction notice to Netanyahu's post, confirming the image of Arab voters was fake and originally published in February.
- Turnout reached 74.3% by 8 PM, the highest Israeli rate since 1988, according to the elections committee.
- Arab party leaders cited the detention of three officials with cash-filled envelopes as an isolated case, while Ben-Gvir urged Israelis to counter the 'crazy' Arab turnout.