Feiglin based his argument on the serious suspicions currently under investigation by the Shin Bet regarding foreign funding allegedly originating in Qatar and intended to influence Arab voter turnout. "The emperor has no clothes, the Knesset elected in Israel is not legitimate," Feiglin declared. "We need to go to new elections."
Outside the President's Residence, Feiglin explained the apparent contradiction between his call for repeat elections and his recommendation of Netanyahu: "We are part of the national camp, we are part of the Jewish majority. If the Jewish majority still chose Netanyahu to lead it, then that's what we have, and I am bound to my voters. But this Knesset must dissolve itself."
The demand to cancel the election results drew a sharp and immediate response from President Herzog, who confronted the Zehut leader: "I know the history, you have never fully trusted the state."
The security establishment and the Shin Bet clarify that the investigation into foreign funding is focused and conducted with utmost caution, and does not cast aspersions on the Arab public as a whole. Nevertheless, the claims about the integrity of the elections continue to roil the political system and further split the map of endorsements on the way to assigning the mandate.
Netanyahu is conducting feverish efforts to secure the support of the chareidi parties, pledging to them a resolution of the draft law. At the same time, the change bloc is formulating a comprehensive plan to repeal laws immediately upon the start of the new Knesset's work.
