With clock ticking for Netanyahu to build a coalition, compromise seems off the table, as Knesset debates dissolution bill to call new elections

As the issue of Haredi conscription threatens to derail a government, Open University's Prof. Yagil Levy says neither religious nor secular parties truly desire a compromise

Either Netanyahu will muster a government at the eleventh hour, or we'll have new elections, or neither of the above. The next few frenzied hours will tell

Compromise seems off the table with Knesset session on dissolution bill set to begin; Likud minister says Liberman no longer part of the right

As Israel edges closer to snap polls, Yisrael Beytenu chief says his demand to pass draft law is 'not caprice, not ego and not revenge, but a foundation-stone of our platform'

Premier reportedly doing all he can to avoid snap polls, 24 hours before deadline; even if deal reached, lack of time will likely force him to hand URWP's Smotrich justice ministry

Addressing Likud secretariat before it votes to approve Kulanu merger, premier says that ‘the clearer it is that we are going to elections, the more likely it is that we won't’

What about SodaStream's alchemist Daniel Birnbaum, or inspirational matriarch Marie Nahmias for PM? No, I'm not being serious. But then again, neither is Netanyahu

Most media outlets seem to agree that even Netanyahu's vaunted political prowess is not enough to save the unraveling coalition and keep the PM in power

As Israel edges closer to snap polls, Yisrael Beytenu chief says PM capitulating to 'ultra-Orthodox extremism'