Lapid, Gantz call on PM to halt legislation and return to compromise talks before 'civil war' breaks out; Liberman says only solution is new government, constitution

Opposition lawmakers say draft amendment compromises women's position and is part of a slide toward theocracy

Report says ministers considering across-the-board spending cut to raise stipends for ultra-Orthodox men who choose religious study over work and mandatory military service

Opposition MKs plan to slow down committee voting, with coalition seeking to add unplanned plenum day in Knesset; Liberman calls for boycott of votes

Opposition leader says eliminating judicial reasonableness test would let government 'fire all the gatekeepers'; Smotrich says legislation cannot be halted for negotiations

At weekly faction meetings, Lapid, Gantz call for government to halt renewed push to remake judiciary, as protesters mass at airport, Haifa port

Ben Gvir and others in coalition clamor for wide military operation after Eli terror: 'Time has come to return to targeted assassinations from the air, to bring down buildings'

Yisrael Beytenu head again claims his fellow opposition chiefs have cut deal with PM and Aryeh Deri that would return the latter to cabinet after court ruled he can't be a minister

Yisrael Beytenu party head, who has sat out overhaul negotiations, asserts fellow opposition parties will agree to coalition demands in exchange for spot on panel that picks judges

Ambassador responds with 'extreme dismay' to Yinon Azoulay's mention of his country 'in a negative connotation' while feuding with Yisrael Beytenu leader