In his first foreign outlet interview with CNN, Evyatar David said he could barely say and do the things his captors demanded of him for propaganda videos due to his weakened state. 'When I tried to dig the grave,' which was his own, 'just holding the shovel was almost impossible'

After a two-day campaign in which Likud warned voters that the new far-right hardliner and ex-IDF general would recommend either Avigdor Lieberman or Gadi Eisenkot as Israel's next prime minister, Winter asserted: 'the leader of Israel's right is Netanyahu'

The far-right minister also accused Arab citizens of 'occupying' the northern Galilee and southern Negev regions. Netanyahu's governing coalition has made the Judaization of these regions a government policy