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A recent poll has shown that the majority of Israelis back early elections and reject ultra-Orthodox parties joining the government, while a new party led by former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett would come first if elections were held today.

According to the poll conducted by Israel’s Channel 12 yesterday, 57 per cent of Israelis support dissolving the Knesset and holding early elections, while 33 per cent oppose the move.

As for the leadership of the Likud…

Some 73 per cent of Germans want tighter controls on arms exports to Israel, including 30 per cent who favour a total ban, a poll showed yesterday, reflecting growing public unease over the government’s Israel policy, Reuters reported.

Germany has remained one of Israel’s staunchest allies and its second largest arms supplier, despite Israel’s increasing international isolation and rising criticism over its genocide in Gaza.

Between October 2023 and…

A Swedish appeals court today found one man guilty of being a member of a terrorism organisation for swearing loyalty to the Islamic State, upholding the verdict of a lower court, while the conviction of three others were overturned, Reuters reports.

Sweden’s security services arrested the men last year and prosecutors later charged them with being members of a terrorism organisation between September 2023 and March 2024.

But the Svea Appeals Court said in a…