Defense ministers discuss plans to work closely together; Gantz invites Abdullah bin Hassan al-Nuaimi to Israel for official visit

Funds to go to defense, stipends for disabled, yeshivas, aliyah and education projects; amid standoff over permanent budget, finance minister says work has started on 2021 proposal

Defense minister reportedly asks Netanyahu to convene key committee; move seen as attempt to cement ties with settler leaders, who are angry at PM for reneging on annexation

After meetings scrapped in past month due to coalition crisis, Kushner visit, ministers to discuss approving further funds for state budget

Previous Israeli policy was only to keep bodies of Hamas terrorists for a potential prisoner exchange, and new guidelines may be susceptible to legal challenge

Defense minister says Hamas was surprised by ferocity of retaliation to waves of incendiary balloons, realized Israelis were taking matter seriously

Netanyahu says division of agenda made in coordination with Gantz; defense officials reportedly to go to Abu Dhabi within 2 weeks

PM charged head-first into a wall of public resentment over the budget deadlock; it's doing him more damage than all the years of corruption probes and intemperate politicking

PM says that while he is legally allowed to, he'll forgo involvement in choosing new attorney general, state attorney and police commissioner

Gantz says Netanyahu sowing societal rifts, hints he's pushing elections due to corruption trial; Likud accuses rivals of sabotaging government from within