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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military prepped the family home of a Palestinian gunman for demolition Sunday, a day after he killed an Israeli man near an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.

Several people were also wounded in the shooting late Saturday.

Dramatic security camera video showed the assailant firing his assault rifle outside a grocery before a security guard rammed him with his truck and pinned him to the ground. An off-duty military officer then opened fire and killed the assailant, later identified as Mohammed Jaaberi, 35.

28 October 2022; MEMO: On 1 November, Israel holds an unprecedented fifth election in less than four years, with former Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vying for a comeback, Reuters reports.

Caught in an election cycle since 2019, the same year in which Netanyahu was indicted for corruption on charges he denies, voters hope to break the deadlock between the most dominant politician of his generation and his many rivals.

29 October 2022; MEMO: In an open letter, five former European ministers labelled Israel's policies against Palestinians as "the crime of apartheid", Anadolu News Agency reports.

"We see no alternative but to acknowledge that Israel's policies and practices against the Palestinians amount to the crime of apartheid," they said in a letter published by French daily, Le Monde, on Thursday.

27 October 2022; MEMO: An Israeli court has sentenced Palestinian footballer Tareq Al-Araj to four years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of 4,000 shekels ($1,145), the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

UMM AL FAHM, Israel (AP) — The voices of Israel’s Palestinian citizens are often drowned out or delegitimized in the country’s noisy politics. Yet in the upcoming parliament election, they could hold the key to breaking an entrenched political deadlock.

Israelis vote Tuesday for the fifth time in under four years. The country remains divided over former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fitness to serve while on trial for corruption. Polls show those numbers have barely budged

25 October 2022; MEMO: Israel granted Energean permission to start production at the offshore Karish gas field on Tuesday, an Energy Ministry statement said, Reuters reports.

Energean has said its floating production storage and the off-loading vessel are due to start production at Karish in the third quarter but has not given a precise date.

On 9 October, the London-listed energy group began pumping gas to its floating production facility as part of reverse flow testing procedures.

24 October 2022; MEMO: Arab residents of Israel have attended massive gatherings in support of Sami Abu Shehadeh, head of the National Democratic Assembly (Balad).

The gatherings were organised in Um Al-Fahm, Baqa Al-Gharbiyyeh, Qafr Mandda and Jadeedat Al Makr, amongst others, with large numbers of people attending.

Attendees stressed their support for Abu Shehadeh and the National Democratic Assembly. They pledged to exert all possible efforts to ensure the party succeeds in the upcoming elections.

24 October 2022; MEMO: Former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday accused the current Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, of "deteriorating Israel's security and economy."

Criticising Lapid, Netanyahu told reporters that Lapid did not have "expertise in running the economy," warning that Israelis were the "ones paying the price."

"The cost of living in Israel skyrocketed this year…people are not making a living and the government seems to not care," he added.

22 October 2022; MEMO: Tens of thousands of live bullets were stolen on Wednesday from the Be'er Sheva Airfield military base in the south of Israel, Israeli media reported on Friday.

Israeli reports stated that the rounds were stolen from the bunker at the base where the Givati ​​Brigade headquarters are located.

According to Israeli media, the military police are investigating the theft and will send the findings to the military attorney's office for examination.

20 October 2022; MEMO: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Tasnim news agency claimed yesterday that the Israeli spy agency Mossad eliminated six of its own officers after accusing them of collaborating with Tehran. The agency quoted anonymous sources as saying that this followed the failure to carry out a sabotage operation in the Iranian province of Isfahan.