Appointment raises eyebrows, as far-right author and radio talk show host has a history of attacking Democratic US presidents and presidential hopefuls

As his corruption trial begins, the PM's supporters go on the offensive and Avichai Mandelblit finds himself embroiled once more in a decade-old scandal

German Chancellor Merkel, Indian Prime Minister Modi, Austrian Chancellor Kurz issue congratulations to Netanyahu and Gantz, Israeli public

Gantz plays second fiddle as the prime minister relishes the start of another 18 months, minimum, at center stage

A rundown of the distribution of portfolios in the new cabinet and top Knesset positions

A timeline of the elections, bargaining, deadlock and deal-making that led to the May 17 swearing-in of a new functioning government

Ben-Gurion managed with 12 ministers in Israel's first coalition. Now we are to have 35, some overseeing patently absurd, illogical portfolios, at a time of economic meltdown

Announcement comes after day of wrangling over cabinet post, and as premier struggles to placate senior Likud lawmakers with limited number of available portfolios

The man who said Netanyahu was destroying the country now sits alongside him, with no defining influence on the fateful issue of annexation, his future vulnerable to the PM's whim

'An emergency unity government of national conciliation': Official agreement on the goals of the new Netanyahu-Gantz coalition