Qatar denies Israeli election meddling, accuses politicians of spreading disinformation

Spokesperson for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

We officially deny the claims that we interfered in the elections in Israel and financed activities aimed at influencing their results.

We are being accused of having “bought” Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli left-wing opposition and now also the Arab population.

If all these accusations were true, then essentially we would be the owners of the whole of Israel.

The head of Israel's Central Elections Committee, Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg, has ordered the Shin Bet internal security agency to investigate allegations of foreign funding aimed at boosting turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel. 

Israeli media claim Qatar and Turkey were the sources, citing figures of tens of millions of shekels, though no evidence has been made public. 

According to Channel 12, the Shin Bet allegedly had the intelligence before the vote. Sohlberg wants findings within a week, before final results are published.

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