Netanyahu posts mushroom cloud, talks cryptocurrency as election looms
Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped up warnings about national security ahead of Israel's election. He told voters that Iran's nuclear weapons could bring a second Holocaust, and posted an AI-generated image of a nuclear blast over a city widely read as Tel Aviv. He also said Israel needed a bypass economy to withstand possible sanctions, and agreed that cryptocurrency was one option. The Bank of Israel said cryptocurrencies could not avoid sanctions. Rival Gadi Eisenkot, a former military chief of staff, told supporters Israel faced a choice between international partnership and isolation.