PM highlights payment to political rival from Wexner Foundation, linked to US tycoon who allegedly sex trafficked minors

Former PM steps into potential minefield by backing comments by member of his party Yair Golan comparing trends in Israeli society to conditions that gave rise to Nazism

PM highlights alleged friendly ties between political rival and tycoon embroiled in new sex scandal; Barak responds with a jab about premier's own criminal cases

PM denies reports that he made such an amendment a coalition prerequisite, because 'there won't be anything' in the probes against him

Former PM says he's looking to create electoral bloc that 'will start more to the left' than the centrist Blue and White party

Former PM says will unite country 'a moment before the total dissolution of Israeli democracy'; billboard campaign to launch with slogan 'State of Netanyahu or State of Israel?'

But neither scenario predicted to end coalition deadlock with both 19-seats mega-mergers draining support from larger Likud and Blue and White factions

Two days after winning party primary, Amir Peretz says he'll consider any move that will help create a large left-wing political bloc to replace Netanyahu

Ehud Barak's new party fails to clear threshold in one poll, wins 6 seats in another; Netanyahu remains most popular choice for PM

Gantz, Barak and Horowitz all indicate they will discuss possible alliances with Peretz, who calls for 'uniting the bloc'