Israel’s election committee urges probe into alleged Qatari interference

One more development here, a story that broke this Thursday, an election committee chief is urging for a probe into alleged foreign funding from Qatar. Tell us more. Right, I will, but I want to urge caution here because this entire matter has appeared just in the last hour with many, many irregularities. This is what we know. The head of the National Commission of Elections, who is Supreme Court Judge Noam Solberg, has asked the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency, to investigate what he calls serious claims that a foreign entity, in this case Qatar, spent illegally, obviously, an enormous amount of money to influence voter turnout in the Arab community of Israel. Now, the irregularities are many. He didn't convene the committee to show any evidence. We don't know of any evidence. And Israel police, that should be the body in charge of investigating, hasn't yet received any such claim. But, of course, Prime Minister Netanyahu's Likud party is already basically claiming that the entire results of the election are illegitimate because of these, I would say, concerns or suspicions. suspicions. We're going to have to, I think, have some nerves of steel, which is not a characteristic Israelis are used to, to wait to see what develops with this, if anything at all. But yes, that is the scandal of the day here, day two after these historic elections. Israeli politics and your camera on shaky ground, Noga Tarapovsky. Thank you for that update.