You Must Be Kidding #1: 

• Likud party filed complaints against more than 100 polling stations, the police found suspicion of fake vote at just one
• Netanyahu is not interested in purity of elections but of purification of the nation // Haaretz Editorial
• 17-year-old moderately wounded in stabbing attack in the West Bank, his father was lightly wounded
• US and Iran harshen the tone, but Israel thinks that Trump and Rouhani will meet // Amos Harel
• Municipalities took advantage of elections to change the guidelines for deporting children of foreigners
• In a quarter of the identification line-ups in recent years, witnesses idnetified with certainty people who weren't suspects
• Not just talk // Nati Tucker on Likud promoting bill at night to cancel the Cable and Satellite Council that Netanyahu wanted to close down
• What wasn't // Gideon Levy writes that Israel was less democratic before Netanyahu
• The film that turns Yigal Amir into a movie hero is a reminder that the murder of Rabin was not an act of madness // Shani Littman

• Attorney General will warn the ministers: Cameras law will disrupt the elections (Hebrew)
• The new threat: Hamas’ explosive drones
• Floating danger // Yossi Yehoshua
• Exclusive: (Muslim-Arab Israeli soccer player,) Totaha received offer from Beitar Jerusalem team

• Cameras in the focus - Attorney General will tell government cabinet: No speedy procedure for passing cameras law
• Gaza border: Military vehicle hit by explosive that was launched from Palestinian drone
• Iran accelerating the race to the bomb - Teheran rejected the billions that Macron offered and is re-operating 40 centrifuges to enrich uranium quickly
• Lacking restraint - Yair Netanyahu Tweeted: “Rabin murdered Holocaust survivors in Altanela”
• The Indians also failed - Like the Israeli spaceship, the Indian spaceship lost contact two kilometers from the moon

• Cameras reach the government - In an exceptional move, Attorney General will participate (in cabinet meeting)
• Three stages of Kahol-Lavan // Yaakov Berdugo
• Cameras Law - It’s time // Gilad Zwick
• Only 53% of voters are sure who they will vote for
• The best of ‘Friends’ - ‘Friends’ television series celebrates 25th anniversary and calls on ‘Israel Hayom’ readers to choose their favorite episode
• Fear: Jihad is pushing for escalation
• The elections warm-up // Yoav Limor
• Exclusive - Education Ministry opposes ultra-Orthodox state schools with core studies
• Closing circle - The machine gun of the Golani Brigade soldier who fell in the Six Day War was found in digs in the Golan Heights

• A week and a half before the election, only 53% of Israelis have decided how to vote and of them, most would vote for Kahol-Lavan - Poll published Sunday. With a week and a half left before ballots are cast, voter turn-out of more importance than ever. Kahol-Lavan performs well as a "No. 2" choice for supporters of Labor, Yisrael Beytenu. The poll attempted to project the number of seats each party would win based only on supporters who said they were very certain about their choices. In that scenario, 31 seats were projected for Kahol-Lavan (Blue and White), compared to 30 for the Likud. Yisrael Beytenu was predicted to finish in third place, with 11 seats, followed by the Joint Arab List, with 10. (Israel Hayom)
• Poll published Friday: Likud retakes lead, Right nears 60 seats without Lieberman - Kahol-Lavan drops to 30 seats, while Labor-Gesher gains at the expense of the Democratic Union. Some 40% of respondents say that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the best candidate to lead the government. (Israel Hayom)
• Likud and Kahol Lavan tied in election polls, but majority coalition remains uncertain - Thursday night: Both major parties gain strength ahead of Israel's September 17 ballot, while Kahanist party Otzma Yehudit seen inching closer the electoral threshold. (Haaretz)
• Likud and Kahol-Lavan - 32 each, a stable Lieberman with 10 seats - One-and-a-half weeks left until the elections, and there’s almost a tie between the blocs: 56 for the right, 54 for the center-left. At present, neither party has the option of forming a government without Yisrael Beiteinu. (Maariv)
• Lieberman: "Likud plans to launch brutal violence at the polling stations” - Chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu addressed the Cameras Law, saying that there is a directive from the ruling party to use violence: "Such a decision would not be approved without receiving explicit approval.” (Maariv)
• **Netanyahu Alleged Massive Arab Voter Fraud. Police Found One Case - in Favor of Likud - Police investigated suspected fraud in six ballots sent by election committee. Two are alleged to have been rigged in favor of Likud and Shas. Netanyahu convenes gov't meeting to advance bill allowing cameras in polling stations. (Haaretz+)
• Risking Vote Irregularities, Israel Election Board OKs Unbalanced Monitor Assignment - Haaretz found a correlation between unbalanced precinct committees and polling stations with potential irregularities; Central Elections Committee says such configurations are unavoidable. (Haaretz)
• Netanyahu attacks Kahol-Lavan: “They want to steal the elections from us“ - In the wake of the petition filed against the Likud's request to place cameras at polling stations across the country, the PM said Friday that "the last thing Gantz and Lapid want is a true count of votes and the purity of the elections." (Maariv)
• Kahol-Lavan, Likud turn sights on smaller parties as elections near - As the campaign enters its final week, and the parties shift direction and change their messaging in a final push to win more votes, one thing remains certain: No one knows how this election will end and what kind of government will emerge. (Israel Hayom)
• Likud MK to far-right anti-gay Party: Quit race and we’ll end non-Orthodox worship at Western Wall - Though the meeting was initiated by MK Zohar, he claims it was sanctioned by the prime minister, still Likud issued a denial saying Noam was not offered anything to drop out of the race. (Ynet)
• Bypassing the Attorney General: In an unofficial video, Netanyahu promised farmers to stop enforcing the law - The video featuring Netanyahu is free of the party's stamp and is not officially a Likud video clip. This is an illegal attempt by the PM to collect votes. (Ben Caspit, Maariv+VIDEO)
• Arab alliance struggles to get voters fired up ahead of Israel's election - 'We’re two weeks from the election and we don’t feel any movement,' campaign worker for the four-party Joint List says amid fears that dull messaging would keep many Arab voters at home on September 17. (Haaretz+)
• Likud claims: Internal polls indicate an increase in support from Russian public - At the Russian headquarters of the party, they launched a campaign in which over 100 billboards were distributed. At Yisrael Beiteinu they say: "Netanyahu always remembers immigrants just before the elections and forgets them afterwards.” (Maariv)
• Foreign minister says ultra-Orthodox will not 'extort' Likud - Israel Katz claims there's no chance for Netanyahu to be replaced as Likud leader in a 'democratic way' and lends his support for U.S.-Israel defense alliance in a fight against Iranian missile enterprise and nuclear ambitions. (Ynet)
• Druze representative quits Democratic Union, warns Arabs will not vote for Barak - Ali Salalha says party failed to take him seriously and that former prime minister Ehud Barak will drive away the Arab voters it seeks to win over. (Haaretz+)

• Top Israeli Court Orders State to Clear Palestinian Area It Turned Into Landfill - Israel Railways dumped tons of dirt onto Palestinian land next to the West Bank settlement of Nili to be used for a park, ignoring orders to cease and desist. (Haaretz)
• *“Broke the law": Yair Netanyahu attacked the late Yitzhak Rabin in the wake of the column by Maariv commentator Kalman Libskind - PM's son caused a stir on Twitter when he attacked the former prime minister. "Rabin broke the law by lecturing in America while still a public servant, earning a fortune. When they brought it against him, he blamed the case on his wife and closed the case in a pleasant conversation in his living room with Aharon Barak. Rabin murdered Holocaust survivors on the Altalena. Rabin brought Arafat and tens of thousands of terrorists from Tunis and caused the deaths of 2,000 Israelis." (Arutz7 and Maariv)
• Yair Netanyahu more dangerous than Rabin assassin Yigal Amir, says Labor head - At Tel Aviv rally, Amir Peretz excoriates PM’s son for comments alleging Rabin ‘murdered Holocaust survivors,’ calls on AG to act to prevent next political assassination. Rabin's son, Yuval: “To say that my father murdered Holocaust survivors - is a continuation of the (anti-Rabin) poster of him in SS uniform." (Times of Israel and Maariv)
• Netanyahu Disavows Son's Tweets About Assassinated Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin: ‘His Opinions Are His Alone’ - Yair Netanyahu wrote that 'Rabin murdered Holocaust survivors on the Altalena' and that he 'caused the deaths of 2,000 Israelis.’ (Haaretz and Israel Hayom)
• Jewish man murdered Arab man in psychiatric hospital; Father of dead young man: “He was brutally beaten, we must not be silent" - The family of Hamed Salameh, 24, the security detainee who called the police and said he was on his way to attack a Dimona reactor and was sent for a psychiatric exam, was killed in a brawl at a psychiatric hospital, is demanding answers. His father visited him hours before he died: "We laughed and everything was fine. I came home and got a phone call that he was dead.” Dr. Zvi Fishel, chairman of the Psychiatric Association: "This tragedy is the result of a severe manpower shortage in the psychiatric wards. This is the result of ongoing neglect of the mental health system. We have long been alerted to the unbearable discrimination between psychiatric medicine and the rest of the medical field. Neglect and discrimination lead to a sad result of rising violence in the closed psychiatric wards." (Maariv, Israel Hayom Hebrew and Ynet Hebrew)
• 5 years without Ebra - Rally in Tel-Aviv - This evening, a five-year protest rally will be held in Tel Aviv marking the captivity of Ebra Mengistu in the hands of Hamas. "Every year that passes I say to myself, 'Maybe this year he will come back,'" says his brother Ilan, "Mother prays daily to see him." (Yedioth Hebrew/Ynet English)
• United States Blocks UN Statement on Israel-Hezbollah Fire, Diplomats Say - According to the UN diplomats, the United States objected to the statement's failure to condemn Hezbollah and its 'moral equivalence' between Israel and the militant group. (Agencies, Haaretz and Israel Hayom)
• Miriam Adelson: ‘Sara Netanyahu told me if Iran wipes out Israel, it would be my fault’ - Israel Hayom publisher speaks to police as part of the investigation into the suspicion that PM Netanyahu offered benefits in exchange for positive news coverage. Adelson also testified that Sara Netanyahu told her to buy her presents. (Haaretz and Maariv)
• Israel bars Druze religious leaders from visiting Syria - The sheikhs planned to visit a religious site near Damascus but were arrested at the Jordanian border for allegedly seeking to meet with officials of the Assad regime. (Haaretz+)
• Israel's baseball team has a secret weapon – and it may get it into the Olympics - Local association has arranged citizenship for over a dozen U.S. players, some of them former major leaguers like Danny Valencia, Ty Kelly and Jon Moscot. (Haaretz+)
• Despite abuse claims, Jewish Agency allowed alleged pedophile to immigrate to Israel - A former karate teacher has been renamed in a new civil suit against Yeshiva University regarding abuse claims from the late 1970s and early ’80s. In 2015, the Jewish Agency reviewed the claims but allowed the man, who denies all wrongdoing and was never convicted, to make aliyah. (Haaretz+)
• Competitiveness in tourism prices? Israel ranks 139th out of 140 - The overall rating of the industry was 57, a slight improvement over the rating two years ago. There was a dramatic improvement in the security and safety section, which looks at the incidence of crime, violence and terrorism and to what extent police services can be trusted. The price competitiveness section, in which was ranked one rank before the end (compared with 133 in the previous report), refers to the cost of flights to Israel, port taxes, hotel stays and fuel. (Yedioth Hebrew)
• Kentucky becomes 22nd state to enact anti-BDS law - “My colleagues and I condemn the BDS movement, and we have sent a letter to the Office of Foreign Asset Control requesting an update on the federal government’s oversight of non-governmental organizations engaged in anti-Semitic hate against our allies in Israel and the Jewish people worldwide,” said Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) at the signing ceremony. (Israel Hayom)
• Lebanese president threatens: "Israel will bear the consequences of every attack on our country" - Michel Aoun warned in a meeting with the UN Special Coordinator that "any attack on Lebanon's sovereignty will be responded with based on our legitimate right to self-defense.” (Maariv)
• Despite U.S. Pressure, Chinese Firm Closing in on Highly Sensitive Israeli Location - The Chinese Hutchison company made it to the last stage of the tender on building a desalination facility in a security-sensitive site in Israel. (Haaretz+)
• Iran seizes ship for alleged fuel smuggling in Gulf, holds 12 Filipino crew - Due to its low fuel prices, Iran has been fighting fuel smuggling by neighboring countries and Gulf states. (Agencies, Haaretz)
• Turkey plans to return 1 million Syrians, warns of new migrant wave in Europe - Ankara may reopen route for migrants into Europe if it does not receive adequate international support for plans to resettle 1 million refugees in northern Syria, Erdogan said Thursday. (Agencies, Ynet)