🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli opposition candidate Yair Lapid is working to encourage members from the Likud camp to defect, using his connections within the party," - Israel Hayom.

🇮🇱⚡- "Several Knesset members from Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party opposed the swearing-in of a government with Arab abstentions [let alone Arab seats joining the coalition]," - Amit Segal of Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡️- After 11 days, the mayor of Limoges says he has not received any call or message from Emmanuel Macron to support him after losing his town hall. However, the mayor did receive a supportive email from Vice-President J.D. Vance.

🇺🇸🇧🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Flavio Bolsonaro declares himself Brazil's president-elect. He accuses Lula and the Brazilian Supreme Court of carrying mass voter fraud and stealing the presidential election.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Vice President JD Vance has sent a letter to Iran’s SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaee. The letter, ordered by President Trump, is an effort to revive negotiations and secure peace with Iran, according to the WSJ.

U.S. officials believe that reaching out directly to hardliners in Iran could open a path to diplomacy, something that has not been done previously.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli elections:

Votes counted: 97.42%

• Likud-bloc - 53 seats
- Likud: 27
- Otzma Yehudit: 7
- Yahadut HaTorah: 7
- Shas: 6
- Tkuma: 6

• Yashar-bloc - 48 seats
- Yashar: 21
- B'Yachad: 12
- Democrats: 8
- Yisrael Beiteinu: 7

• Arab coalition - 19 seats
- Joint List: 12
- Ra'am: 7

• Other
- Amcha Israel: 0
- Reservists and the Economic Party: 0
- Noam: 0

🇮🇱⚡- Sources within the Joint List have told Channel 11 that there is resentment towards Eisenkot because he has not yet contacted the Joint List, and has only held talks with his Yashar camp.

🇺🇸🇸🇻🇭🇹⚡️- El Salvador has reportedly deployed approximately 1,000 troops to Haiti after a gang ambush left four Salvadoran military personnel missing near Port-au-Prince. This is a major escalation from the initial 200 special forces deployed last week.

American C-130 aircraft helped transport the reinforcements, significantly expanding President Bukele's military operations against Haiti's powerful criminal gangs.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump is heckled multiple times during his rally in Chillicothe, Ohio.

The protesters shout insults related to Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- Internal polling from the Ohio GOP shows that Vivek Ramaswamy is collapsing as Amy Acton takes an 8 point lead.

🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Far-right Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman, a member of the Yashar-aligned camp, has cut contact with Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, and Yair Lapid.

According to Israeli Channel 12, Lieberman has made it clear that he will not, under any circumstances, join or support a government that depends on Arab seats.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- The US Defense Intelligence Agency has released a satellite image of China's secretive Shenlong spaceplane, which closely copies the design of the American X-37B, a spacecraft the US has operated for nearly two decades.

These reusable, unmanned spacecraft conduct classified military experiments, maneuver in orbit, and deploy satellites before returning to Earth. The image, captured by an American satellite in 2024, shows Shenlong with its payload bay doors open, giving US intelligence a rare look at China's orbital operations.