Israel’s Central Elections Committee orders Ben-Gvir to remove video threatening Palestinian prisoner

The committee's move tests whether Israeli election law can reach a sitting minister's social-media conduct in real time, rather than only through retrospective sanction. It matters because Ben-Gvir's national-security portfolio gives his online statements operational weight that ordinary campaign rhetoric lacks, and because the order creates a direct confrontation between an electoral regulator and a senior government figure. Whether the video is actually removed, and whether the committee pursues further action, is the open question.