🇮🇱⚡- Israeli opposition (anti-Likud camp) preferred government:

- 59% support a minority government with Ra'am, and with Joint List abstaining.
- 26% support a unity government with Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party.
- 10% prefer a new election.
- 5% support a government backed by the ultra-Orthodox (Shas and Yahadut HaTorah).

Source: aChord Center.

🇷🇺🇧🇾🇺🇦⚡- Belarusian Cyber Partisans and Silent Crow stole 23TB of data from Russian state-owned Rosstat, including Russia's military death certificate data.

The groups took over 25,000 machines in the hacking and revealed 450,100 Russians have died in the war in Ukraine.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- ARAMCO tower in Riyadh suffered damage after falling debris from after Ansarullah's ballistic missiles were intercepted over the Saudi capital.

🇮🇱⚡- "Given the current situation, and in order to prevent further elections and bring an end to the Netanyahu era, it is unavoidable to make difficult decisions and to reach understandings on them.

I still believe that the correct model is a conscription law that includes everyone. However, in light of the election results, we must explore the possibility of reaching understandings, including based on formulas proposed in the past.

I am not acting out of personal ambition to become Prime Minister at any cost. I have always maintained that, for me, it is a choice, not an obsession," - Avigdor Lieberman of Yisrael Beiteinu.

Note, both Amit Segal and Yaron Avraham have said Avigdor Lieberman demanded a rotational premiership government within the Yashar-bloc in exchange for lifting his opposition to cooperation with the ultra-Orthodox parties. Gadi Eisenkot would serve as Prime Minister for the first half of the term, Avigdor Lieberman will take over for the second half.

🇮🇱⚡- Gadi Eisenkot has arrived at President Isaac Herzog's office to receive his mandate.

🇮🇱⚡- Percentage of the Yashar-camp who'd support a Yashar-bloc minority government with Ra'am seats and Joint List abstaining:

- Democrats (Yair Golan) - 93%.
- Yashar (Gadi Eisenkot) - 59%.
- B'Yachad (Naftali Bennett) - 47%.
- Yisrael Beiteinu (Avigdor Lieberman) - 42%.

🇫🇷⚡️- "We should have busted his arm." - Senior party official of Les Républicains to Le Point, expressing severe discontent over Lisnard's rise in polls. David Lisnard left the party in March 2026 and was seen as a joke by most lieutenants of the right-wing party. He is now polling better than Bruno Retailleau, party leader of Les Républicains.

🇮🇱⚡- Shas leader Aryeh Deri has announced his retirement from the Shas candidate list for the 26th Knesset and will not serve as a Member of Knesset in the next government.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "It's highly unlikely that we'll return to war with Iran if the negotiations proceed." - President Trump.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡️- Insane footage of an oil tanker engulfed in flames in the Strait of Hormuz earlier today.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The Nariman air defense site in Qeshm, southern Iran, has been struck multiple times, a local source tells Rerum Novarum.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian SAM missiles have been fired at U.S. fighter jets over southern Iran, local sources tell Rerum Novarum.

🇺🇬✝️⚡️- Ugandan actor Kakule William, who achieved worldwide fame playing Captain Alex in Who Killed Captain Alex, has passed away.

His passing was announced on the Wakaliwood official Instagram account.

The 2010 film achieved notoriety in the west for its surreal action sequences and the undeniable passion put into the low budget amateur movie.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- BREAKING: A projectile has struck the Khor Mor gas field in northern Iraq.

Rerum Novarum assesses that this is likely an Iranian response to recent USAF strikes in southern Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- Power outages in several parts of Iraqi Kurdistan, locals tell Rerum Novarum.