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

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "In advance of Israel’s pivotal election on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought for weeks to orchestrate a new airstrike on Iran but ran into resistance from the military’s chief of staff." - NYT.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "General Zamir believed that Netanyahu’s push for action against Iran would be a miscalculation that could provoke Iran into attacking Israel." - NYT.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- Ramaswamy campaign is now sending out fliers targeted at Democrat and Independent voters saying that Acton is "too conservative" for Ohio.

🇺🇸⚡️- Researchers at Purdue University have demonstrated an autonomous drone capable of tracking a moving person through dense forests without GPS or cloud connectivity. The drone uses 3D LiDAR mapping, onboard AI, and real-time movement prediction to navigate obstacles and maintain tracking even when its target disappears behind trees.

The technology has significant military applications, particularly for tracking and eliminating enemy personnel, reconnaissance, and autonomous operations in GPS-denied environments. Purdue's IDEAS Lab also holds a $1.5 million US Army research agreement to develop autonomous aerial and ground systems capable of operating in hostile terrain.

🇮🇱⚡- Ofer Winter has cast his vote.

Meet the man who's likely killed Netanyahu's political career.

🇮🇱⚡- Voter turnout for the Israeli elections at 10am local time reaches 16.68%, the highest at that hour in 45 years.

🇮🇱⚡- Benjamin Netanyahu has privately accepted the US-offer in forming a unity government with Gadi Eisenkot while excluding Itamar Ben-Gvir from any future coalition arrangement with Yashar, Israel Hayom reports.

🇳🇴🇫🇮🇷🇺⚡- "Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing for phone talks with Finland’s President Alexander Stubb and Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store to discuss the prospects for a peace deal in Ukraine. The three leaders may speak as soon as today.

The planned talks follow a revived effort to get peace negotiations on track, with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff visiting Putin in St. Petersburg last week. Witkoff traveled to Russia after holding talks in Oslo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the two Nordic leaders," - Bloomberg.

🇮🇱⚡- "Chief of Staff Zamir or those close to him leaked news of his disagreement with Netanyahu with the aim of politically assisting Eisenkot in exchange for extending Zamir's tenure for another year," - A Likud source tells Ma'ariv.

🇮🇱⚡- A 94 year old man in Ramat Gan collapsed and died after casting his vote.

🇳🇴🇫🇮🇷🇺⚡- "The President of Finland and the Prime Minister of Norway held a telephone conversation with Putin, according to a statement from Stubb's office.

The conversation was described as frank and substantive. The leaders discussed diplomatic efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine," - RIA Novosti.

🇫🇷🇨🇳⚡️- Kylian Mbappé lost all his Chinese sponsors this morning after saying Mao Zedong was a dictator.

🇮🇱⚡- Israel's election voter turnout reaches 31.5% as of 12:00 local time. The highest at that hour since 1973.

🇮🇱⚡️- Benjamin Netanyahu is seemingly panicking on Twitter as he urges more of his supporters to vote, claiming that the hike in voter turnout mostly comes from Arabic sectors.

🇮🇱⚡️- "Emergency call: they are trying to steal the election from us!" - Benjamin Netanyahu.

🇮🇱⚡️- Benjaming Netanyahu has now tweeted six times within two hours to denounce a massive voter turnout in Arabic and left-wing sectors. His "emergency calls" are being heavily relayed by media outlets aligned with him.

🇮🇱⚡- Voter turnout in the Israeli elections at 2pm local time: 44.9%. The highest at this hour since 1969.

🇮🇱⚡- Likud turnout is running 27% below expectations, with the party’s strongholds in south Tel Aviv among the hardest hit.

Netanyahu spoke with Bezalel Smotrich about a plan to get Likud voters to the polls. Meanwhile, Itamar Ben-Gvir is out campaigning on the beach.