🇮🇱⚡- Benjamin Netanyahu has called on Ofer Winter to resign from the race ahead of next week's elections.

🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu met Moti Leitner of HaTzibur HaHaredi last night and urged him to quit the race so right-wing votes aren’t wasted.

🇮🇱 - Latest polling average (last 10 polls published yesterday):

Likud (Benjamin Netanyahu) - 22 seats
Yashar (Gadi Eisenkot) - 22 seats
B'Yachad (Naftali Bennett + Yair Lapid) - 12 seats
Democrats (Yair Golan) - 9 seats
Otzma Yehudit (Itamar Ben-Gvir) - 9 seats
Shas (Aryeh Deri) - 8 seats
Yisrael Beiteinu (Avigdor Lieberman) - 8 seats
Joint List (Yousef Jabareen) - 8 seats
Yahadut HaTorah (Ya'akov Asher) - 7 seats
Tkuma (Bezalel Smotrich) - 6 seats
Ra'am (Mansour Abbas) - 5 seats

Likud-bloc: 51 seats (Likud, Otzma Yehudit, Shas, Yahadut HaTorah, Tkuma)
Yashar-bloc: 51 seats (Yashar, B'Yachad*, Democrats, Yisrael Beiteinu)
Arab-coalition: 13 seats (Joint List, Ra'am).

*Assuming Bennett join's an Eisenkot-led bloc.

🇨🇦⚡️- Bioware announces they are closing their studio.

Go woke, go broke.

🇮🇷⚡️- Visual confirmation of ballistic missile movements in Lorestan Province, western Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Dozens of Israeli fighter jets and refueling tankers flew near the Iranian border in a “show of force” earlier this week. The Israelis appeared to want Iran to fire on their aircraft and trigger an escalation, according to a U.S. source who spoke to Axios.

Iranian jets were scrambled near the border but did not fire on enemy aircraft.

🇮🇱⚡- In a major blow to Likud, Ofer Winter and Moti Leitner have both decided against withdrawing from the elections.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We are in the stage of preparing to unveil the ‘father of all bombs’. This is something new for the enemy.” - IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi.

🇮🇷⚡️ - Several explosions were heard in Kerpan, Sirik County, Iran near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state-affiliated media sources added they are working to determine the source of the explosions.

🇺🇸🇦🇪🇶🇦⚡️- The U.S. State Department is preparing to issue an ordered departure for some personnel and their family members at U.S. embassies across the Gulf, according to Reuters.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- BREAKING: Explosions in Iraqi territorial waters. The IRGC is likely attacking vessels in Iraqi waters for the second time in 24 hours.

The attacks come after Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi ordered the closure of Iraqi-Iranian border crossings to crack down on Iranian-aligned militias.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Ansarullah has struck Saudi Arabia’s Shaybah oilfield, killing two people, according to Saudi state news.

🇺🇸🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: The United States has ordered all embassy staff to evacuate Saudi Arabia immediately, according to AFP.

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇯🇴⚡️- U.S. embassy staff in Qatar, Jordan, and Bahrain have been ordered to leave with their families, according to AFP.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "In the past few hours, there has apparently been a change in the American position in favor of a preemptive strike on Iran.

White House sources explain the change mainly due to the great weight that President Trump gave to the assessments and intelligence that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presented to him upon his return from the meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu." - Haaretz.

🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Visual confirmation of plumes of smoke in Sirik, southern Iran.

Iranian state media has confirmed the explosions, the cause remains unclear.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: An IRGC missile launch unit was targeted and struck in Sirik, southern Iran, according to local Iranian reports.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Preliminary FIRMS confirmation of the Ansarullah strikes on a Shaybah Oil Field power plant located at 22.53931, 53.92245. An anomalous amount of heat activity was detected at the power plant lining up with the reported attack.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: AIPAC announces it will no longer issue candidate endorsements or directly earmark contributions to candidates.