Israel: Government coalition construction conundrums
PM Binjymin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid began fighting for the next election before the coalition started being formed.
Israel: Forming next government has surprising challenges
The unlikely alliance between centrist Yair Lapid and right-wing Naftali Bennett puts a twist in talks on forming Israel's next…
Israel: Still no government 3 weeks after elections
Netanyahu’s efforts to build a broad national unity government suffered multiple setbacks on this week when his potential coalition partners…
Israeli Elections: Putting God back in power?
A shift in the landscape of Israeli politics has given rise to the newly created secular Yesh Atid party and…
Israel: Netanyahu wins election
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party’s election night victory gives him the task of building a coalition government in the…
Israel: Elections draw high voter turnout, surprising results
Election Committee releases final tally of 2013 ballots with the gap between right and centre-left blocs one of the narrowest…
Israel: ‘Jewish Home’ party rising on the right
Surveys show the Bayit Yehudi party headed by Naftali Bennett, a high-tech millionaire and former Jewish settler leader who wants…