Netanyahu’s ruling party has accused Arab politicians of stealing the election after their strong showing at the polls

Israeli police have found no evidence supporting claims by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party that Arab parties rigged Tuesday’s parliamentary election, according to local media.

Police received 48 complaints involving suspected fraud and voter impersonation, around 40% fewer than in the previous election. No investigative or intelligence evidence pointed to widespread fraud, i24NEWS reported on Thursday.

“There’s nothing dramatic,” Major General Boaz Blatt, the head of the police’s Investigations and Intelligence Division, said, according to Kan News.

Israel’s Central Elections Committee said it received around 10,000 reports of suspected electoral irregularities, but around 80% were dismissed as unrelated to election integrity, including false or incorrectly classified complaints.…