Rafi Peretz reaches out to Shas and UTJ leaders, proposing they work together in coalition talks to advance issues of religion and state where they all largely agree

The PM made history when his Likud party became the first since Israel's inception to win more than a million votes -- a trove he hopes will fend off his legal woes

Vote count as of Thursday morning shows Blue and White getting most votes in middle-class town, long believed to be a barometer of the country as a whole

With Netanyahu set to retake power, the only questions are if New Right can finagle a way in, how he'll fight to stay out of legal trouble, and what went wrong for everyone else

When they broke from Jewish Home, Shaked and Bennett left an angry religious-Zionist faction behind -- one none too eager to back them as they hover just short of the threshold