Ukraine's president gives Netanyahu a way to avert virus risk posed by mass pilgrimage to rabbi's gravesite, which premier declines so as not to upset Haredi coalition partners

An 11th hour agreement allows Israel's zombie coalition to keep limping along, but it will likely spend the time eschewing brains and looking for votes instead

Netanyahu agrees to push off elections, seemingly granting his dying coalition a 100-day stay of execution, but nobody thinks it will last past Dec. 2, if it even makes it that far

A protest outside the prime minister's office turns violent, with videos and pictures showing cops beating demonstrators, and papers get pumped about a possible budget compromise

A US push for Israel's okay of F-35 sales to the UAE breaks the denial barrier, though the role of normalization and Israel's QME stays in the clouds. Plus elections!? (again!)

Pundits worry over alleged US sale of advanced weaponry to UAE, denied by Netanyahu, but some think it's a small price to pay for peace

A report that Israel removed its opposition to the UAE getting jet fighters as part of its normalization deal adds to existing questions about what everybody is gaining, or losing

Netanyahu takes credit both for pushing annexation and for pushing a deal that killed it, laying bare an Iran vs. annexation dispute, amid battles over who the real diplomats are

Israelis are getting excited about an open relationship with Abu Dhabi, but already have their eyes on other countries they can bring into the 'new Middle East'

The prime minister's parlaying of a dying annexation bid into a historic agreement earns him praise from critics and talk of both a new Mideast and a new Netanyahu