Leaders of major Israeli parties have decided to postpone discussions on forming the country’s next government until after the Passover holiday, Safa news agency reported yesterday. Reporting Israeli sources, Safa said that there...

Days after he was tapped by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to form the next government, the erstwhile head of the nominally centre-left Blue and White bloc, Benny Gantz, shocked...

After the initial agreement between Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White Party, and the Israeli Prime Minister to form a unity government, it can be said that...

Although representatives of the Likud and former Blue and White bloc have met to discuss the formation of a unity government in Israel, obstacles still remain as both parties...

Israel’s right-wing Yamina Party led by Defence Minister Naftali Bennet has threatened to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as head of the coalition right-wing bloc, Israeli media reported on...

Following a meeting with Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party, head of Israel’s Labour Party Amir Peretz is set to join the new unity government led by Benjamin Netanyahu,...

Israeli politics has been thrown into even more turmoil with former General Benny Gantz’s decision to leave the Blue and White bloc to join Benjamin Netanyahu in what has...

Head of Israel Resilience Party (Hosen L’Yisrael) Benny Gantz is concerned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not commit to the “rotation deal”, Arab48.com reported on Friday. In a shocking...

The populations of many countries the world over are right now living under unprecedented quarantine measures and restrictions on movement. The threat of the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic has...

Israel appeared headed for a unity government on Friday after opposition leader Benny Gantz moved towards an agreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, disappointing voters who had hoped to...

US President Donald Trump on Friday congratulated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for moving towards forming a government, the Israeli premier said. “Trump called Prime Minister Netanyahu and congratulated...

Joint List lawmakers expressed outrage and condemned Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz for forming a new unity government that would keep the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power....

Journalist Ron Ben-Yishai, who has been covering Israel’s wars since the 1967 Six-Day War, has warned of an increase in violence among Israelis that could mount to civil war...

Benny Gantz decided to dismantle his Blue and White opposition party alliance after reading the results of a poll he commissioned, reported Arutz Sheva. According to news site Srugim,...

Blue and White bloc leader Benny Gantz has been elected as Speaker of Israel’s parliament after the Supreme Court ordered the Knesset to convene and elect someone to succeed...

On Wednesday, Knesset Speaker Yuli Adelstein submitted his resignation hours before the deadline set by the Supreme Court to hold parliamentary elections that would determine his successor. “I announce...

There is a lot of talk about the efforts to form a new government in Israel and the bitter confrontation between the rival Likud and Blue and White blocs...

Blue and White party leaders have concluded that there is no chance of forming a minority government reliant on external support from the Joint List, reported Israel’s Channel 13...

Amid controversy over the formation of Knesset committees and voting for a replacement Knesset speaker, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu is calling on his rival Blue and White Leader Benny...

Israel MK key to forming unity government refuses to open Knesset

Blue and White chair Benny Gantz is “inclined to form a unity government with Benjamin Netanyahu serving as prime minister first in a rotation”, reported Haaretz, citing “political sources”,...

Media reports on Thursday revealed that little progress has been achieved in forming an emergency government in Israel. According to the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC), the Blue and...

The leaders of Likud and the Blue and White party, Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz respectively, met on Wednesday night to discuss the formation of a unity government but...

After being sworn-in Monday, the 23rd Knesset is currently “paralysed” and “unable to function”, reported Haaretz, thanks to “a combination of political wrangling and the coronavirus epidemic”. As a...

Another Blue and White parliamentarian has reportedly expressed opposition to the formation of a minority government supported from the outside by the Arab-dominated Joint List. According to the Times...

The Joint List alliance of Arab-majority parties in Israel yesterday decided to endorse Chairman of the Blue and White party Benny Gantz to become prime minister, local media reported....

A new poll has revealed that a broad national unity government is the most popular option amongst Israelis, but a plurality also believe that a fourth election is inevitable,...

The leader of Israel’s Blue and White bloc, Benny Gantz, and the head of the Labor Party in the Zionist state, Amir Peretz, reaffirmed in a meeting yesterday that...

Likud is reportedly pressuring Labor party leader Amir Peretz to reject attempts by Blue and White chair Benny Gantz to form a minority coalition government, as post-election wrangling continues....

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin is planning to hold talks with the various parliamentary blocs in the 23rd Knesset next Sunday in order for them to nominate their candidates to...

Ahmad Tibi, deputy in the Israeli Knesset’s Joint List, has filed a police complaint after his face was pasted onto a pinata at a yeshiva in southern Israel and...

Israeli District Court in Jerusalem yesterday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to delay his corruption trial, local media reported. According to Israel Hayom, the trial will begin...