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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz at a memorial ceremony in the Knesset marking 24 years since the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, on Nov. 10, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

National unity government is ‘still possible,’ says Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed confidence on Monday that it was still possible to achieve a “robust” unity government, saying there was no need for the country to go back to elections. “The worst...
Shas Party chairman and Minister of Interior Affairs Aryeh Deri, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz at a ceremony marking six years to the death of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the late religious spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews, at the Knesset the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on November 4, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90

Can Israel’s party leaders find a way out of third elections?

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Israel’s election impasse doesn’t appear to be waning as the country is closing in on nearly two months since its second national election in September. In the past several days, various reports have emerged...
Blue and White head Benny Gantz (third from left) and fellow leaders (from left) Yair Lapid, Gaby Ashkenazi and Moshe Ya'alon with supporters at a party rally in Tel Aviv on Oct. 31, 2019. Photo by Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90.

Discord between Blue and White, Likud erode hope for national unity government

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Coalition talks continue with Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, who is trying to use the most of the 28 days that Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has given him to form a coalition....
Blue and White Party head Benny Gantz attends a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on Oct. 28, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

With ball in Gantz’s court, he’s shooting for support wherever he can find it

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Benny Gantz and the Blue and White Party are hard at work trying to find other parties to join his coalition to give him the 61 mandates needed to form a government. Much talk...
Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin of the Likud Party arrives at a meeting with the Blue and White Party for negotiations after Blue and White leader Benny Gantz was given the mandate to form a government, at the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel in Ramat Gan, on Oct. 27, 2019. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Likud, Blue and White negotiators meet for coalition talks

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Negotiators from the Likud and Blue and White parties met on Sunday for the first time since Blue and White leader Benny Gantz was given the mandate by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to form...
Blue and White Party chairman Benny Gantz with party members at campaign headquarters on election night in Tel Aviv, Sept. 18, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

After Netanyahu fails to form a government, mandate passes to Gantz

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In the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s inability to form a government ahead of this week’s deadline, President Reuven Rivlin passed the mandate onto Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz on...
Israel's President Reuven Rivlin presents Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the mandate to form a new government on Sept. 25, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Report: Rivlin unlikely to extend Netanyahu’s mandate to form coalition

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Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin is not expected to grant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an extension to form a majority government and will likely pass on the mandate to Blue and White leader Benny Gantz,...
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announces his resignation following the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza during a press conference in the Knesset, Nov. 14, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Lieberman plan calls for Netanyahu to be first premier, but without right-wing bloc

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Yisrael Beiteinu Party head Avigdor Lieberman presented his plan on Wednesday evening for a government consisting of his own party added to the Blue and White Party, and the Likud Party. According to his proposal, ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman during a visit to the West Bank, July 20, 2016. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Last-ditch Netanyahu-Lieberman meeting ends with no breakthrough

A last-ditch effort by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday morning to form a broad unity government ended in failure. According to a Likud statement, “the meeting...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Immigrant Absorption Minister Ze'ev Elkin during a Likud Party meeting at the Knesset, on May 18, 2015. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Right-wing parties decide to stick together as unity talks flail

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Wednesday with leaders of parties from the right-wing bloc to discuss the future of negotiations to form a unity government after talks with Blue and White went...