Refuted TV reports would see Gantz's premiership start-date pushed back -- but such a move would require changing Basic Laws in matter of days

Bill would affect 65 currently illegal West Bank communities, but legislative effort running out of time with government expected to disolve, and will also face court challenge

Israel now has 60 days to put former principal on a plane to face trial for 74 counts of abuse; her lawyers say they will not make a final appeal to stop it

Judges back AG's position that political bickering doesn't override duty to approve a permanent director-general, an appointment that has been delayed by coalition infighting

Legislation will remove 1960 stipulation that prospective parents be 'a man and a woman;' Welfare Minister Itzik Shmuli lauds 'historic correction' of discrimination

Netanyahu's party, ultra-Orthodox fume at Blue and White for advancing proposal that would explicitly bar discrimination, amid jockeying ahead of Knesset's possible dissolution

Likud MKs petition High Court over appointment of 61 judges by panel during meeting they boycotted; PM says he doesn't want elections, but says Likud will win if vote held

Likud's Miri Regev and Osnat Mark refuse to take part due to selection of 'anti-Zionist' judges they claim -- apparently mistakenly -- that panel cannot convene without them

In op-ed, Amit Aisman says comments unacceptable, don't represent his worldview and vows they won't repeat; report says his Haifa district has had lowest trial rate for sex crimes

Nissenkorn reprimands Amit Aisman, saying past comments 'have no place in the public and professional discourse' but do not prevent his appointment