Likud installed cameras outside Arab polling stations: Report

An Israeli reporter with Channel 13 has published a video showing members of Netanyahu’s Likud party installing “face-recognising” cameras outside a polling station in a Palestinian village near the city of Nazareth, inside Israel.

Akiva Novick was heavily criticised for the video, with The Times of Israel saying that the journalist “seems to reveal that he did indeed get the information from Likud itself”.

Novick later corrected his report and said that the Likud cameras could not "recognise faces". 

A Likud spokesperson responded by saying they had "no comment".

Netanyahu has tried to push a bill to install cameras in polling stations but a Knesset committee struck it down a week before the election started.

Critics saw Likud's plan as a way of sending a message to Israel's Palestinian community in the hope of keeping them away from the ballot box.