Netanyahu said security needs would leave Katz unable to campaign, as an internal party poll projected he would reach the 19th seat on the party's slate. FM Sa'ar and Likud Central Committee head Haim Katz were also secured. 'This doesn't look good,' one source says
FM Katz accused Erdogan of turning "Turkey into a state that supports terrorism [that] subjects Turkey to the Iranian axis of evil in the name of extreme ideology and blatant anti-Semitism.”
Katz ordered the measure two days after Spain, Ireland and Norway announced they would unilaterally recognize Palestine as a state, a measure that officially goes into effect on May 28.