PM has until Wednesday to clinch government or tell president he failed; David Bitan says 'no point' in requesting additional 14 days with negotiations stalled

Former justice minister, whose New Right party didn't sign statement against joining minority coalition backed by the Joint List, says earlier document was enough

Ultra-Orthodox party rejects final tally submitted week after national vote, which brought it down from eight seats to seven while Likud rose from 31 to 32

Likud and Blue and White remain deadlocked in talks over unity government with neither compromising so far on core demands

Giving Netanyahu with the mandate to form a government, the president invoked a word used to describe unity bids in Reformation Europe and 1980s Israel

Yuval Steinitz claims centrist party rejected president's proposal due to infighting between leader Benny Gantz and his No. 2 Yair Lapid

As political affiliations become increasingly fluid, large parties may do well to pay heed to an Israeli hi-tech maven's statistical analysis of who is voting for whom -- and why

President describes suggestions for changes to the law that would have enabled each of the two men to replace the other as prime minister should one be unable to fulfill duties

After dropping from 8 to 7 seats, ultra-Orthodox party laments that official election results were determined 'in a short timeframe'

The president had no trouble getting Israel's two would-be PMs into a room together. Convincing them to sign on to sharing power is a task of a whole different order