Blue and White leader says he'll tap fellow former IDF chief Gabi Ashkenazi for defense, ex-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon for education, if he forms next government

Everything you need to know about the front-runners, the new alliances, the parties in danger of stumbling under the electoral threshold, and the earnest yet hopeless unknowns

Martin Indyk disputes PM's claim he shot down rival Gantz's efforts on proposal to evacuate Jordan Valley

Some Arab voters say they'll back Blue and White to defeat Netanyahu, while Jewish supporters of Arab parties see their votes as necessary to stop 'the antidemocratic current'

Momentum with right even though PM's Likud and Blue and White in dead heat in pair of TV surveys, which also have extremist Otzma Yehudit entering the Knesset

Election Committee chief slaps NIS 30,000 penalty on prime minister and his party for backtracking on promise not to include campaign propaganda during live TV statement

Kan public broadcaster finds 2-seat lead for centrist party over ruling Likud; like recent surveys, gives extremist Otzma Yehudit 4 seats

Neither Netanyahu nor Gantz is set to get the support of 61 MKs, so they're battling to head the biggest party and thus win Rivlin's okay to build a coalition. This may not be wise

Gaza's ruling terror group boasts that pair of missiles which forced PM to take cover during campaign speech 'made it all the way to the heart of the Israeli occupation'

Blue and White claims PM adopted its idea to apply Israeli sovereignty over the area; left-wing figures say move meant to help premier escape his legal woes