Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein has ordered the police to investigate irregularities in the Labor Party primaries. The Movement for Quality in Government demanded that testimonies by Labor members that they voted more than once be looked into, as well as suspicions in the Druze sector.
Ynet, a Hebrew internet new site owned by Israel's largest daily, Yediot Acharonot, has featured the story of the criminal investigation in the Likud on its front page for a large part of the past 24 hours. This is in sharp departure with its usual practice of changing the top story every few minutes. The other news outlets are also refusing to let the story die; Voice of Israel Radio has featured it in various forms for a number of days, and today quotes Education Minister Limor Livnat as saying that Prime Minister Sharon is determined to change the Likud's internal primaries in light of the accusations.
Ynet, a Hebrew internet new site owned by Israel's largest daily, Yediot Acharonot, has featured the story of the criminal investigation in the Likud on its front page for a large part of the past 24 hours. This is in sharp departure with its usual practice of changing the top story every few minutes. The other news outlets are also refusing to let the story die; Voice of Israel Radio has featured it in various forms for a number of days, and today quotes Education Minister Limor Livnat as saying that Prime Minister Sharon is determined to change the Likud's internal primaries in light of the accusations.