🇨🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israel and Cyprus sign a new defence agreement in which Tel Aviv will supply the Cypriot Navy with a new offshore patrol vessel built by Israel Shipyards and equipped with Rafael naval systems.

🇮🇱⚡- 12 hours until the polls open in Israel. The final pre-blackout average from six polling houses (Channel 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and Ma’ariv), with each party’s range across the polls in brackets:

- Likud (Benjamin Netanyahu) - 22 seats (18-29)
- Yashar (Gadi Eisenkot) - 22 seats (20-23)
- B'Yachad (Naftali Bennett + Yair Lapid) - 13 seats (7-15)
- Democrats (Yair Golan) - 10 seats (9-10)
- Joint List (Yousef Jabareen) - 8 seats (8-9)
- Otzma Yehudit (Itamar Ben-Gvir) - 8 seats (7-9)
- Shas (Aryeh Deri) - 8 seats (7-10)
- Yahadut HaTorah (Ya'akov Asher) - 8 seats (7-8)
- Yisrael Beiteinu (Avigdor Lieberman) - 8 seats (5-8)
- Tkuma (Bezalel Smotrich) - 7 seats (6-8)
- Ra'am (Mansour Abbas) - 6 seats (5-6)

Under 3.25% threshold:
- Amcha Yisrael (Ofer Winter) - 3.0%
- Reservists and Economic Party (Yoaz Hendel) - 2.7%

Likud-bloc: 53 seats (Likud, Otzma Yehudit, Shas, Yahadut HaTorah, Tkuma)
Yashar-bloc: 53 seats (Yashar, B'Yachad*, Democrats, Yisrael Beiteinu)
Arab-coalition: 14 seats (Joint List, Ra'am).

*Assuming Bennett joins an Eisenkot-led bloc.

🇸🇾⚡- Massive explosion at a weapons depot in Saraqib, Idlib region, northwest Syria. Secondary explosions can be seen in the footage. The cause of the explosion remains unknown.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- The growing rift between Israel’s ruling political leadership and the security establishment is not limited to tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, but also extends into the Mossad.

Newly appointed Mossad Chief Roman Gofman supports Netanyahu’s position on launching military action against Iran before the upcoming elections, however, several senior Mossad officials oppose such a move.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Regime change in Iran is not the right thing to do," - Gadi Eisenkot, Israeli opposition candidate.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu is delusional, he knew Iran did not have nuclear weapons," - Gadi Eisenkot, Israeli opposition candidate.

🇮🇷🇷🇺🇶🇦⚡- Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold meetings with Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian and the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Moscow tomorrow.

🇫🇷⚡️- Emmanuel Macron caved in to a significant amount of the French students' demands, with sizeable reforms being implemented as soon as January. Despite this, several students unions have called on to keep pressuring the government for further reforms.

🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has offered Ansarullah (the Houthis) $1 billion during mediation with Iran to halt attacks on the Kingdom, Gulf diplomatic sources tell Israel Hayom.

🇮🇱⚡️- Netanyahu plans to dismiss IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir if he wins re-election, according to i24NEWS.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The disagreements between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir extends beyond Iran and into the recent military operation in Hebron in the West Bank.

According to Israeli Channel 11, the IDF had intended to announce the conclusion of the recent military operation yesterday, but Netanyahu intervened to prevent the declaration.

The timing is politically significant, as the announcement would have come on the eve of the elections and could have dampened support among right-wing voters, particularly within the Otzma Yehudit constituency in the Hebron area.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has dismissed reports that Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir could be removed from his post following the elections.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob and The bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, William Joensen have released statements condemning the White House after pictures of them praying with President Trump were publicized without their permission for campaign purposes.

The two met with Trump on Thursday for a private meeting after being invited by the White House earlier in the year to discuss abortion, supporting private religious schools, and immigration.

🇧🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Flavio Bolsonaro has been asked by the Brazilian Federal Police to surrender his passports. He is currently banned from leaving Brazil.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚡- Harry Kane wins the 2026 Ballon d'Or.

🇸🇾🇯🇴 - 5 children were killed in the Jordanian attacks on the Dara'a region, southern Syria. 8 civilians died in total.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Explosions were heard in Dammam, eastern Saudi Arabia, around 45 minutes ago, locals tell Rerum Novarum.