Alliance reverts to original factions as planned before joint Knesset run; New Right MK says move 'in accordance with the promise made to voters'

With New Right branching off, National Union head urges permanent alliance with Jewish Home, but latter party says it first has internal matters to tend to

Alliance to split back into New Right and Jewish Home as originally planned before joint Knesset run; National Union to stay with Jewish Home; Peretz pledges support to Netanyahu

Right-wing and ultra-Orthodox leaders reportedly plan to tell PM that if he commits to folding them into next coalition, they will recommend only him as next premier

In mocking post, after a soldier is hospitalized with heatstroke, right-wing minister says cost of program should be considered next time more money is requested for army

No woman has ever risen to the pinnacle of political power in a bloc representing the traditionally patriarchal Orthodox community

PM fears that United Right, led by Ayelet Shaked, a popular ex-minister, could siphon votes away from Likud, and is concerned that other votes for fringe hardliners could be lost

PM was criticized ahead of April elections for orchestrating URWP merger with extremist Otzma Yehudit to shore up right-wing bloc; now, he's reportedly doing it again

Surveys indicate Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu remains kingmaker of next coalition

Rift develops over name of alliance after extreme-right Otzma Yehudit left out at this time from Union of Right-Wing Parties; it complains it was 'used and discarded'