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Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz delivers a statement in Tel Aviv on Sept. 26, 2019. Photo by Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90.

As coalition talks fail, Netanyahu’s indictment hearings begin

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As coalition negotiations appear to have failed, potentially leading Israel into an unprecedented third round of national elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared Wednesday for a pre-indictment hearing with Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit. Netanyahu’s...
Blue and White Party No. 2 Yair Lapid delivers a statement during a faction meeting in Tel Aviv, Sept. 19, 2019. Photo by Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90.

Lapid said to refuse to serve under Netanyahu, unity government or no

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Blue and White Party No. 2 Yair Lapid will not join a government headed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even if Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Blue and White form a unity government, party...
Israel's President Reuven Rivlin meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, at the President Residence in Jerusalem on Sept. 23, 2019. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

With Netanyahu and Gantz in political deadlock, Lieberman says only ‘one option’ remains

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Following his completion of meeting with party representatives, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted Israeli Prime Minister and Likud Party head Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, in an attempt to...
Mtanes Shehadeh, leader of the Balad Party, speaks at an election campaign event in Tel Aviv on Aug. 20, 2019. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.

Only 10 Joint List MKs back Gantz (not 13), putting Netanyahu back in the...

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The Joint Arab List clarified on Monday that while the bloc is backing Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz to create the next Israeli government coalition, one faction, the Balad Party, will not...
Likud members and supporters celebrate Israel's election results at party headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 9, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Likud, Yamina parties and UTJ form joint coalition-negotiation bloc

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As the dust began to settle in the wake of Tuesday’s general election, Likud officials on Wednesday worked on two primary messages: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be ousted as head of...
Election campaign posters in Tel Aviv depict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party, as well as leaders of the Blue and White Party, including Benny Gantz, second from left, Sept. 2019. Photo by Adam Shuldman/Flash90.

With 90% of vote officially counted, Blue and White leads Likud 32-31

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According to official results released by Israel’s Central Elections Committee, with 90% of the ballots counted Blue and White maintains a slight lead over the Likud, with neither bloc clearly positioned to form a...
Election campaign billboards showing U.S. President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and (to the right) Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, in Jerusalem on Sept. 14, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The results are in: Who will emerge from Israel’s election deadlock?

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Israel’s hyper-democratic parliamentary system is being put to the test once again as the second round of elections in six months has yielded no clear winner. The two largest parties—Netanyahu’s reigning right-wing Likud Party, and...
Yamina Party leader Ayelet Shaked at the Conference of the Manufacturers Association in Tel Aviv, on Sept. 2, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Shaked: Notice that Likud attacks Lapid, but not Gantz

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The Likud is “careful to attack” Blue and White No. 2 Yair Lapid, but not party leader Benny Gantz, Yamina Party leader said on Monday, indicating that Likud is planning on a coalition deal...
Joint Arab List member Ayman Odeh speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University on March 10, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Would an Arab party alliance with Blue and White topple or boost Netanyahu?

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Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint Arab List, signaled a potential major political shift when he announced last week that his party would consider joining a center-left government led by Benny Gantz of the Blue and...
Benny Gantz, head of Blue and White Party (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party. Credit: Gili Yaari /Flash90 and Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Israeli right and left remain at impasse as Sept. 17 elections approach

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With less than a month to go before Israel’s unprecedented second election this year, it’s becoming clear yet again that neither the right nor left will be able to cobble together enough mandates on...