The press watches in awe as the Blue and White leader wiggles out of a hairy situation and gets an invite to fly to Washington while checking his Netanyahu baggage for free

The almost-released peace proposal is seen as a steal for Israel and a win for Trump and Netanyahu at the polls, all for the low, low price of annexation, violence and damaged ties

Macron yelling at a security guard and negotiations for jailed backpacker's release are blown way out of proportion, overshadowing the World Holocaust Forum

As kings and presidents come to Israel to commemorate the Shoah and slay anti-Semitism, a few jesters and annexers are butting into the get-together

Scads of world leaders are on their way to commemorate the Holocaust, but Israel seems more concerned about other matters, from a prison break deal to bashing the ICC

Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein is Likud enemy No. 1 after crossing Netanyahu; and a loud campaign for Naama Issachar is told to pipe down for Putin

After Auschwitz, poetry is barbaric, but before an Auschwitz commemoration, hope springs eternal for Naama Issachar, for immunity and for new views to help understand the horror

Logic dictates that taking a right, a left and a u-turn will land you right back where you started, but don't expect Israeli politics to stop its treadmill of tears

National religious slates return to same formula from previous race, but it took broken promises, rabbinic pressure and a whole lot of bad blood to pull off before filing deadline

The pressure is on the right wing to unite with a few hours to go before registration closes, and Iranian nuke-building timeline estimates sow some confusion